University of Chicago – Black History In The Bible

03 Nov

Ancient Nubians Came in Varying Shades of Skin Complexion

One For All0 CommentsCommentaries, Paintings & Other Images2021, Brown, Color, Egyptian, Nubia, Pharaoh, Red, Skin, University of Chicago, Woman, Women

Source: Egyptians see Nubians as subjects (University of Chicago) 2021 A.D. Note: From the source. From the source, "These paintings from the tomb of Huy, the Egyptian governor of Nubia during the reign of King Tutankhamun (1336–1327 BC), pictures Nubians bringing tribute for Egypt’s pharaoh. The scene shows a wide variety of Nubians. Some are in Egyptian dress, including a woman riding in a cart. Others, including children, appear in Nubian dress. The skin color of the Nubian men ranges from dark red to brown to black; skin tones for some of the women are lighter." This source confirms that…

30 Oct

Diodorus Siculus’ Commentary-Ancient Egyptians were Colonists of Ancient Ethiopians-Ethiopians Were Euhermistic

Truth Ministries0 CommentsHistorical References, The Hamites90-21 B.C., University of Chicago

Source: Book lll (beginning) Contents of the Third Book of Diodorus (University of Chicago) 90-21 B.C. From the source, "Now the Ethiopians, as historians relate, were the first of all men and the proofs of this statement, they say, are manifest. For that they did not come into their land as immigrants from abroad but were p91 natives of it and so justly bear the name of "autochthones"1...They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. 2 For, speaking generally, what is now Egypt, they maintain, was not land but sea when…

03 Dec

Israel Exiled Into West Africa

One For All0 CommentsHistorical References1800s, 1865, Asia Minor, Central Africa, Ethiopians, Galla, Igbo, Language, Niger River, North Africa, University of Chicago

Source: West African Countries and Peoples, British and NativeWith the Requirements Necessary for Establishing that Self Government Recommended by the Committee of the House of Commons, 1865; and a Vindication of the African Race (University of Chicago) 1865 A.D. - Page 189-190 "The ten tribes of Israel, after they were left to follow the dictates of their own mind, and during the commotion and destructive warfare which ensued, to escape utter extermination, migrated, according to the usage of the times, in vast numbers into various countries, but principally into Northern Africa, as it then presented the safest and easiest route.…

01 Dec

Semites Are a Dark Complexioned, Curly Hair, Thick Lipped Race

One For All0 CommentsHistorical References1900s, 1915, Dark Complexion, University of Chicago

Source: The Biblical World (University of Chicago) 1915 A.D. Page 210, "This race is characterized by a dark complexion, thick, black, curly hair, a hooked nose, rather thickened at the base, and thick lips." This book tells us about the black features of Shemites. Interestingly, this book put the Ethiopians into the Semitic family (we know Ethiopians are Hamites because the Bible tells us this) which once again shows the Israelites have a physical and linguistical affinity with Ethiopian peoples.

Download The BHITB App