Teritos
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Is this image authentic? If so, why does it show Abraham and other Hebrews with dark skin colors and afros?
Beth Alpha - Wikipedia
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Is this image authentic? If so, why does it show Abraham and other Hebrews with dark skin colors and afros?
Beth Alpha - Wikipedia
Considering religious views aren't based on skin color/race, I don't see why there can't be dark skinned afro wearing Jews.
Maybe because dark folks made it.
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Don't know about the hairstyles, but the mishna says that the skin of the Jews was not black or white but somewhere in-between. Brown may as well be in-between.Is this image authentic? If so, why does it show Abraham and other Hebrews with dark skin colors and afros?
Beth Alpha - Wikipedia
It should be. It's in an ancient synagogue in northern Israeli and includes Hebrew writing.
Sounds like a typical Mediterranean skin colour to me. I just always assumed that then as now there would have been an array of skin-tones, as one tends to find in the ME and Africa.
Orbit
I'm a planet
Is this image authentic? If so, why does it show Abraham and other Hebrews with dark skin colors and afros?
Beth Alpha - Wikipedia
You do know that people from the Middle East can be dark skinned, right? And Egypt is right there in Africa. It's not like populations didn't move around. Some Bible figures were from Ethiopia (Africa). It's not unusual imo.
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
Why are you not concerned about their necks?Is this image authentic? If so, why does it show Abraham and other Hebrews with dark skin colors and afros?
Beth Alpha - Wikipedia
I mean, seriously....
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
And that is and was a tradition in certain African tribes. I need to do a Google search on it. The rings do not actually stretch the neck, if I remember correctly. They depress the clavicle. To me that seems to be even worse.
That did not take long:
Neck ring - Wikipedia
The custom of wearing neck rings is related to an ideal of beauty: an elongated neck. Neck rings push the clavicle and ribs down.[1] The neck stretching is mostly illusory: the weight of the rings twists the collarbone and eventually the upper ribs at an angle 45 degrees lower than what is natural, causing the illusion of an elongated neck. The vertebrae do not elongate, though the space between them may increase as the intervertebral discs absorb liquid.
As I said "owww!!"
epronovost
Well-Known Member
You didn't knew there were black Jews? They are one of the most ancient group. They come from Ethiopia.
Teritos
Active Member
No, that's what South Africans do, not all of Africa. I just think that the people who painted these pictures in the synagogue were not good at drawing.
While that's true, why would a 6th century synagogue in Israel depict the Patriarchs as such? The Patriarchs came from Ur, not Africa.
It's not a drawing. It's a mosaic.
You know, people can also convert to Judaism. There's black Jewish converts.Is this image authentic? If so, why does it show Abraham and other Hebrews with dark skin colors and afros?
Beth Alpha - Wikipedia
Teritos
Active Member
Do you know what the Chaldeans looked like in the time of Abraham?
I don't, but I don't know if that would matter, given that Avraham himself was a descendant of Shem.
Teritos
Active Member
And Shem was a descendant of Noah, and Noah is the ancestor of all. So originally, everyone had one and the same skin color. Which came first, the black or white skin color? When did the white or black skin color come into being?
Who knows.
epronovost
Well-Known Member
It's probably just a representation of common people in Israel at the time and unrelated to Ethiopians indeed.