{"id":779,"date":"2024-07-12T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T02:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/black-jews-in-west-africa-had-the-torah-before-getting-conquered\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T02:23:50","slug":"black-jews-in-west-africa-had-the-torah-before-getting-conquered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/black-jews-in-west-africa-had-the-torah-before-getting-conquered\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Jews in West Africa Had the Torah Before Getting Conquered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_PfzrLqbB6w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>This video takes a quick look at two scholarly sources that explain how black Jews in West Africa had the Torah before they were they were invaded by Muslims who conquered them and burned all of their books. <\/p>\n<p>Source #1:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Nigeria Virtual Jewish Tour&quot; &#8211; Jewish Virtual Library<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org\/nigeria-virtual-jewish-history-tour<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source #2:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Atlas Geographus: Or, A Compleat System of Geography, Ancient and Modern&#8230;&quot; by John Nutt, page 39 (1714)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/about\/For_Africa_Containing_What_is_of_Most_Us.html?id=8bdZAAAAcAAJ<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full original video:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(NEW) THE KINGDOM OF JUDAH IN WEST AFRICA: A BRIEF HISTORY (PRESENTED BY TAZARAH)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mplrT-PPAOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Check out https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com<\/p>\n<p>#history<br \/>\n#jews<br \/>\n#judah<br \/>\n#hebrew<br \/>\n#hebrews<br \/>\n#israel<br \/>\n#israelites<br \/>\n#africa<br \/>\n#westafrica<br \/>\n#bible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video takes a quick look at two scholarly sources that explain how black Jews in West Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tazarah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hqdefault-268.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}