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Were the ancient Israelites black?

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And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

Hey, Browns.

Welcome to our thoroughly Jewish Thursday broadcast.

I'm going to get in depth on a very interesting subject today,

namely where the ancient Israelites black.

And then a little later in the broadcast, we'll take your calls at 8663 for truth, 866, 348, 7-884.

Were the ancient Israelites black, would they look more like folks in Africa today

than they would look like folks, say, in Iraq or Saudi Arabia, or more like folks in Africa than they would look like folks in Europe or America?

Well, I mean, multidiversity, but say mainly a white country. So we're going to talk about that, and I'm going to explain why it's an important and interesting question.

But first, for those who wonder, well, have you looked at arguments that they were black?

Yeah, so books I have gone through, for example, Undeniable by Dante Fortson, who I think is widely respected in certain Hebrew

Israelite circles, or Stephen Jacobs and Moses Farrar, the Hebrew Heritage of Black America,

or let's see here, the original African Heritage Study Bible by Kane, edited by Kane Hope

Felder, so edition based on King James.

These books I have here, a wide-arranging book by Joseph Williams, the Hebraisms of West Africa.

So I'm familiar with a lot of the arguments,

the scriptural arguments, the linguistic arguments, et cetera.

But we're gonna focus on scriptural issues primarily today.

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