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Was Jesus a Black Man?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Note, this is directly copied from wikipedia. I may be a little lazy sometimes, but at least I'm not racist:

    Belief of Jesus being black, at least in part, is based on multiple passages in the Bible describing the background of the Jews, Israelites, and Hebrews as a whole. These include passages describing the Sojourn in Egypt in the Book of Exodus, Amos 9:7, Song of Songs 1:5, and Aaron's grandson, the High Priest Phinehas. According to the Oxford Guide to the Bible The Bible also uses Egyptian and Nubian names for the land and its people... For the Egyptians used to these color variations, the term for their southern neighbors was Nehesi, "southerner", which eventually also came to mean "the black" or "the Nubian". This Egyptian root (nhsj, with the preformative p' as a definite article) appears in Exodus 6.25 as the personal name of Aaron's grandson Phinehas (=pa-nehas)[17], the third high priest of Israel. In addition the African and Black ethnicities are composed of the widest variation historically and presently[18]. The issue is also complex and far from monolithic. Modern Ethiopian Jews have roots going back at least 2000 years and possibly as far back as the days of the Kingdom of Israel.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_of_Jesus

  • Kevin
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    No he was jewish

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