How am I to live? Another black tribe known as Khazail or Kassahil of the town of Lamlun in Khuzestan were a people of Muntafik ibn Uqayl bin Kaab. According to Tabari, Wahhab and other genealogists of the Arabian tribes, Sulaym bin Mansour belonged to the Auf clan of the Khazraj and from Ghatafan came the tribes named Assiyeh , Rahil and Zakwan. do not hold females in high regard. The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. In North Africa they were in fact the people recorded in Roman documents and by later Arabic writers as Uakutameni, Maketae or Micutateni of the Tunisian coast and the Atlas (a tribe mentioned by Diodorus Siculus circa 1st c. as the color of Ethiopians) and as the Ketama or Kitama whom 11th century Christian Iraqi ibn Butlan says were black. Shemitic heritage, and he was still alive at the time of Abrahams death. In his Book 1 Chapter 15 called How the Nation of the Trogodytes were Derived from Abraham by Keturah the following is written: Now the sons of Sous (Shasu or Shuwa)were Sabathan and Dadan. (Gen. 12:15-16) Abraham later fathered a son by one of these African maidens, wife for his favorite son Isaac, he gave strict instructions that his son was was keturah black After Abraham married Keturah, he then fathered six Arabian sons by Keturah is of Jebusite origan or jebusites are left over from the Translation of Salem (Shalom city of Piece), Reliet to above mentioned . Abraham and Keturah had six sons. 1 (07) p. 35, In 1881, Rawlinsons asserts, The Chaab Arabs, the present possessors of the more southern parts of Babylonia are nearly black and the black Syrians of whom Strabo speaks seem to represent the Babylonians. The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World: Or, The History, Geography, and Antiquites of Chalda, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia, Vol. whose name was Hagar. They promote a political Zionism that does not align with the Hebrew Scriptures. Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? From Garden of Purity by Mirkhond The Rayzat in Safa translation E. Rehatsak printed by the Royal Asiatic Society , London, 1891-1894. named Ishmael was born from the union between Shemitic Abraham and his African Reply Shoshana GA September 14, 2020 in response to Denis Kavuo: That was exactly my train of thought. Zipporah was a descendant of Abraham 's son Midian, who was born to Keturah. This information I can better understand, believe and receive because you give more of a Genetic, Genealogy overview of the people of that era and that sheds a clearer light on a lot of things!Thank you for taking the time to do the research and giving a clear explanation of this subject matter. Chronicles 1:32 tells us that Keturah was a concubine, a wife lower [21], According to the Bah author John Able, Bahs consider their founder, Bah'u'llh, to have been "descended doubly, from both Abraham and Sarah, and separately from Abraham and Keturah. This is why Tabari in The History of El Tabari Vol. We grow food to support a community, build and repair homes, and support the poor, widows, and the fatherless. Thus the Arabian tradition makes the tribe of Djurham or Dareem occupants of Hejaz and Yemen ancestors of both Israel and the Ismaelites. She was called Keturah because her deeds were as beautiful as incense (), and because she tied (, the Aramaic for "tied") her "opening" (a euphemism), for she was not sexually intimate with any man from the day she separated from Abraham (Tanchuma 8, Genesis Rabbah 61:4). And he entreated It will be shown that Mansour or Manasseir is the same as Manasseh, child of Joseph and that in genealogy of Arabia most of Mansours descendants figure among the children of Levi in the Bible who had been captured by Bukht al Nasir (Nebuchadnezzar) the Chaldean in charge of Babylon centuries before the Christian era. According to the Bible Jokshan was the second son of Abraham and his concubine Keturah, whom he wed after the death of Sarah.Jokshan had five other brothers: Zimran, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah; as well as . The Ishmaelites or descendants of Hagar, and the Midianites or Kushites (Jokshan or Kushan) of Keturah of the Bible were unquestionably one and the same Ethiopian people. Abraham's second wife was Keturah who bore him six sons. Nevertheless, one must remember that Abraham did not mind mixing his seed with a A Cushite is from Cush, a region south of Ethiopia, where the people are known for their black skin. Cleodemus and Josephus claimed that aside from Jazar (Khazara) who was Jokshan, other tribes of Keturah who had entered and settled the Trogodyte area of Africa were the Midianites (of Madyan, Sinai, Gaza) and the children of Midian and Madan, the Afran and Japhren, Abida, Anoch, Ephah and Eldad (or Yadail) were found in Africa. The word Nabataean came from the major African-Arabian deity Nabu or Nebo which was in the West called Mercury. al., University of Massachusetts Press, November 2002), a native South African shares his experiences of racism in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Africa. Medina was in the area of Harra. . The other one was in Eastern Mesopotamia in what would later become Babylon. What is God showing me? Abraham and Sarah away, giving them treasure and some Egyptian maidservants. Nothing green remained on tree . Many of her illustrations depict empowering messages of black women and girls. It is organized alphabetically by topic.http://jandyongenesis.blogspot.com/2014/04/index-of-topics-at-just-genesis.htmlYou are the first person to raise the question about Facebook. (Thalabah is sometimes written Salabiyyah.) Keturah is a Cushite woman [of another religious background] (Numbers 12:1), a woman of color. In former times they used to sell at Mekka ostrich feathers to the northern pilgrims, and many pedlars of Mekka came here in winter to exchange cotton stuffs for those feathers. from John Lewis Burkhardt, Travels in Arabia. Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. Maybe I will use the group name "Just Genesis" and keep to conversation going through social media. Keturah's sons were said to have represented the Arab tribes who lived south and east of Israel (Genesis 25:1-6). In the Bible, Jacob is, of course, also called Israel. Among them were the historical descendants of Tamudi or Thamudenioi Equites (equestrians) of Dumaat al Jandal in Jordan (Dumah of Bible), Hagarenes or Agarenioi (Hagar daughter the people of Misrah), Nabaaiti (Nabataeans of Petra), Kedrai ( Kedar), all people of Jordan and the Palmyrenes, Ghassanitae or Kassan in Wadi Madyan (Jokshan or Kushan brother of Midian), Maddenioi or Madani (Madan, brother of Midian) all located in those times in the area between southern Syria, North and Central West (Tihama) Arabia. Keturah was Abraham's second wife after the death of Sarah: "Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. Continue Learning about Religious Studies. Al Tabari born in Central Asia in the 9th century mentions the goddess Uzza or Azziz-lat another emanation of Allat, daughter of Allah: I have destroyed it. he said to Muhammad. The sons of Madiau were Ephas, and Ophren, and Anoch, and Ebidas, and Eldas. plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife. Either way, it is further proof that the Arabic peoples are descendants of racial mixing between the Aricans and the original Hebrews. descendent of Ham through one of his sons other than Canaan. sarah and keturah were his ethiopian wives settled in median. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Although both women were descendants of Ham, neither However, while Sarah was still alive, Abraham was married to Hagar as his concubine. bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. Ibn Ishaq, was an Arabian born in Medina in the 8th century makes Ismail the father of Qahtan. The Afro-Arabian Origins of the Israelites and Ishmaelites by Dana Marniche. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7QN3fg3NZU In most Arabian genealogical tradition among the descendants of Ishmael who we have just shown were otherwise called Midianites, were the Hawazin, Sulaym and Mazin, three sons of Mansour, son of Ikrima, son of Khasafa, son of Al Nas or Qays Ailan. The Hebrew word Cush means black, and Cush is said to be the father of the black African people. descendent of Hams race named Hagar the Egyptian, from the land of Ham. unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look 111 22-23NBA VSfreevd.cc2023-01-11.:2023-01-11 . were settlers of Western Ethiopia. Meluhha (Amlikhu) had been known in earlier Akkadian inscriptions as well. Keep doing the good works you are doing, your are making a difference in providing quality information. One European traveler as late as 1887 wrote of a sheikh of the Haweitat tribes in the region of northwest Arabia: The sheikh soon afterwards appeared. The Hawazin remnants still in Yemamah are the Dowasir or Ad Dawasir. Copyright 2023. Its seems that she was more than a concubine (often considered a second-rate wife of servant status), but not on a par with Sarah, Abraham's first "wife," and mother of the promised son (Genesis 17:15-22). 1-2, The Life of the Prophet Muhammad by Ibn Kathir, translation Trevor le Gassick published, 2000. The Torah mentions this marriage in Gen. 25:1, after the death of Sarah and subsequent to the wedding of Isaac and Rebekah. According to the earlier biblical narrative Moses indeed had a wife, Zipporah, who was Midianite (Ex 2:21). Esau is listed in the Edomite ruling line in Genesis 36. Keturah bore Abraham six sons and took care of him until he died at the ripe old Did you see anything. No. Then. Muhammad said, go back and kill her. So Khalid returned to the idol. Image: Dr. Arthur Brack Since Abraham was a ruler in Edom, it is likely that he had a red skin tone. The migration of the Hebrews solidifies the evidence of DNA results as follows; The descendants of Noah who migrated to Africa and later returned to the land of Canaan brought back with them their black Libyan, Ethiopian and Sudanese wives and their subsequently coffe-coloured off-spring. They are the documented descendants of the Beni Amir bin Sasaa of the Hawazin bin Mansour, a tall peoples described until the 20th century as near black in color and strongly built. A remnant of these are yet extant in the Lamlun whom the French traveler, Texier has described and who are allied to the Bisharis p. 518-519. Khalid killed her and took the jewels that were on her. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. Certain bedouin clans of the Nabataean regions like Petra, Wadi Rum and other areas of Jordan such as the Huwatat or Haweitat who claim descent from the Nabataeans, are still near black in color. And Hagar. Of his seed are Aws and Khazraj, sons of Haritha bin Thalabah. And Imran bin Amr and his folks went to Oman where they established the tribe of Azd whose children inhabited Tihama and were known as Azd-of-Shanua. [5] The medieval Jewish commentator Rashi, and some previous rabbinical commentators, related a traditional belief that Keturah was the same person as Hagar, although this idea cannot be found in the biblical text. The word used for wife in the Hebrew is 'ishshah (Strong's No. Zubyan and Ashjaa, descendants of Ghatafan are mentioned in Genesis 36:24 as Zibeon and his son Ajah or Aia descendants of Seir, the Horite and Hivites of Canaan. Sign up for our free daily newsletter. Keturah's award-winning memoir, No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone ( She Writes Press: June, 2019), is a collection of essays chronicling her challenges and reflections on living while Black, woman, single and childfree around the globe. XXV. He had a divine brother whose name was Amran. Much has been made about young women marrying old men for their It is obvious Keturah was 15 years old or above, so she was over 70 years when Abraham remarrried her. Though their sons were the foundation of That is how one of Abraham's great grandsons is described. According to the Hebrew Bible, Keturah or Ketura ( Hebrew: , Modern Qtura Tiberian Qrh ; "Incense") was the woman whom Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, married after the death of his wife, Sarah. Their descendants are described in the 19th century by orientalist explorer George Rawlinson, who traveled through the region and described the Chab (also called in recent times Chub, Kaab, Kub) and Montefik bin Uqayl Arabs in Khuzestan as nearly black and having the dark copper complexion of the Galla Ethiopians and other Abyssinians, See The Seven Great monarchies of the Ancient World, Vol. of Negroid descent. the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy [12] This opinion was adopted and popularized by 11th-century scholar Rashi. (The beauty of Abrams wife must have been Incense in the Bible speaks of worship. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Afar Ifuraces and Ifuras Tuareg and other tall peoples remain under their ancient names. The notion that Shem, Ham and Japhet were peoples of varied appearance is something that is contradicted in early Arabian genealogical sources. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. mentions the Arabian clans of the Maasaai or Mashaai and of Tema (also written Tayma or Teima), who paid him tribute. Keturah (Hebrew: , Qr, possibly meaning "incense";[1] Arabic: ) was a wife[2] and a concubine[3] of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. He was literally said to have been a commander of thousands of men who were of his complexion. My theory is that the Habiru/Hebrew originated along the Upper Nile which is also where we find the earliest references to the Creator Yahweh.One especially interesting passage concerns Zerah the Ethiopian. Abrahams affair with his African handmaiden led to an entire race Abraham, ancestor of the Hebrews, was from Chaldea; the ancient Chaldeans were Black. Deron it's nice to see that people want to know what color the people of the bible was coming from Africa because if you would leave it to Europe all of them where white, they are continuing to leave out blacks in history, and they continue to have disbelief that black men and women are the inventors of most things that good for survival, In reality, as is shown by molecular genetics, the concept of "race" is a false one. The Midianites were the descendants of Midian, who was a son of Abraham and his wife Keturah: Genesis (KJV) 25: 1 Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. ). And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? and much more. There are genetic types and ranges of physical appearance associated with the various types or haplogroups. Kush father of Nimrod is called child of Ham, while Arfakshad or Kasit father of Numayr refers to the Ur Khasdim and was called the first child of Shem. The tribes of Kushan are historically known in the works of Ptolemy. (The same Ad and Amalik who had supposedly disappeared or made extinct. But Abraham sent them to live in other places so that Isaac would be his undisputed heir. Her nationality is unknown. That is how their descendants in Canaan became dark-skinned. wife, take her, and go thy way. The grandfather of the prophet Mohammed, himself, named Abd al Mutallib, son of Hashim, was the son of a Khazraj woman from Yathrib. marital values to his twelve sons. This rendering implies that Abraham's marriage with Keturah did not take place until after Sarah's death; but this, though probable, is far from certain, as the Hebrew simply says, And Abraham added and took a wife. 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Mid'ian, Ishbak, and Shuah. While the Midianites at the torrent of Kishon are the people known as Jokshan or Kushan or Midianites of Habakkuk, Chronicles and Genesis. GIsh,Shalom and welcome to Just Genesis! She is Tarikha el Himyari for her mother was a woman of the tribe of Himyar. One such reference was with regards to the early aristocratic leader of the Khazraj tribe, Ubada bin Samit, who had been sent on a diplomatic mission to the then Byzantine rulers of Egypt: When the companion Ubada bin Samit led a delegation to Muwqaqis the Christian Byzantine red haired ruler of Alexandria is said to have exclaimed get this black man away from mehow can you be content that a black man be your leader. See David Goldenberg, The Curse of Ham, p. 107. Cush or Kush (/ k ? Kedar the second son of Ismail is the name of another group which also came to signify blackness. 1884 The bas reliefs of Susiana show negroid types and Texier found the Lamlam tribe in the marshes around the head of the Persian Gulf to resemble the Bisharin of upper Egypt . [5], According to Doctor of Anthropology Paula M. McNutt, it is generally recognized that there is nothing specific in the biblical traditions recorded in Genesis, including those regarding Abraham and his family, that can be definitively related to known history in or around Canaan in the early second millennium B.C.E. According to the account in Genesis, before his death, Abraham sent off the children whom she bore "eastward, to the Land of the East." They are not considered a part of the Jewish nation. Josephus circa 1st c. connects the name of Massa with the Saracen Mesenaeans whom Ptolemy calls Masanioi living northeast of Dumah (in Jordan). Bio. (Al Dimashqi was a Syrian of Damascus. Keturah ( Hebrew: , Qr, possibly meaning "incense"; [1] Arabic: ) was a wife [2] and a concubine [3] of the Biblical patriarch Abraham. According to the findings of Kamal Salibi, Israel and Canaan were originally names of areas of southwest Arabia. 2023 111 22-23NBA VS ,!! Their descendants became known as Kushites from the land of Kush, (Cush). Ham. The Egyptians were direct descendants of Ham through his son, Mizraim Understand that , This answer to the question "Was Abraham a black man?" Order Blacks in the Bible today with the $10.00 off coupon at 12:1). The original Egyptians were white as well. This is also a reference to the land of the Achar and Og, the Amorite ruler of the Bible.. ).Please bear with me, this is my first Blog in my entire life. (Gen. 27:46) Jacob honored his The word Yhwd or Judah which comes from a word meaning lion wahd or aoud had nothing whatsoever to do with the words, Dedan,Titan or Ditanu an ancient word used for the Amurrite people, and is etymologically related to the words tit a hill or pillar of water. [15], However, this idea was rejected by another rabbi in Genesis Rabbah,[12] as well as by traditional commentators such as Ibn Ezra, Nahmanides, and Rashbam. Order. The origin of Abrahams third wife, Keturah, is not disclosed in the Keturah Kendrick is the author of "No Thanks: Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone" and an avid traveler based in New York City. Shemitic people take pride in their males lineage and ignore And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and (1 Chron. The Titans or Sabaeans were in both legend and tradition said to be very tall statured people. Assyriologists familiar with texts of the neo-Assyrians identify a king, Hazail of Adumu one of the Sheikhs of Kedar conquered by Sennacherib of Assyria. Yeah, it's constructed and etc., but the reality is the worlds eco-system today was initiated by race. About Keturah Whitehurst Keturah Whitehurst was the first African-American woman to intern at the Harvard Psychological Clinic, and the first Black psychologist to be licensed in Virginia. Genesis 25:1-4 Abraham took another wife, whose name was Ketu'rah. 3Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. It originally signified a prophet, its meaning having originally nothing to do with blackness, however, due to the African appearance of the Nabataeans also known as the Anbat Saraceni, the word came to signify black. There were also the Macae, Makka or Makkan (of Wady Makna), Macetae, Messenians in the same region and in Oman, and Scenitae or Ascitae (Hasik or Sakun) and Homeritae (Humayr or Himyarites) in the south (modern Yemen, Hadramaut, Aden, Oman). Secondly, Abraham married again after the death of Sarah, his first wife. The son from this union was Ishmael. Hi Dana The word Judah has been removed from the body of your parent post. ), 1894 On the tribes of Beni Amer ibn Zazaa Arabians of Khuzestan Iran, The faces and limbs of these Arabs were almost black from constant exposure to the sun. I will consider it. 1. While much of the social and political attention surrounding the nationwide opioid epidemic has focused on the dramatic increase in overdose deaths among white, middle-class, suburban and rural users, the impact of the epidemic in Black communities has largely been unrecognized. Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had. (Gen. 12), Beset by plagues, this Hamitic king sent So the woman Abraham married after the death of his first wife was Keturah. His second wife, Keturah, bore him many sons, one of which was Ham. Although, I hear what you're saying Alice and I agree that "ideally" race shouldn't matter and it's a construct, we'd be euro-centrically blind to ignore the anti-blackness that's in the world. Article. They also claim there were two lands named Cush in the time of Moses. Spanish Proverb:- Africa empieza en los Pirineos. According to one opinion in the midrashic work Genesis Rabbah, Keturah and Hagar are names for the same person, whom Abraham remarried after initially expelling. Mansur fathered three children, Mazin, Hawazin and Sulaym or Salim. His name is Midian, which made him the forefather of the Midianites. A people known as Chub were in alliance with the Egypt at the time of Nebuchadnezzar in Ezekiel 30:5, they are in league with Phut or Fut and Lud which has sometimes been wrongly interpreted as Libya and Lydia (in reality the latter were only two of several regions colonized by the tribes of Fut and Lud). This has apparently caused some European political historians chagrin, as a conservative American political commentator, David Pipes, made the following statement in the article, Slave Soldiers in Muslim Armies, in the International Journal of African Historical Studies with regard to Ubada and his compatriots. Josephus refers to the Amalekites as the Phoenician shepherds. [editors note] A substantive population of black Iraqis still live in Basra to this present day.. Al walid exclaimed, Thou art not to be believed, nor to be praised. and religion that calls Abraham its father: the Arabic religion of Islam. Anyway, I think God had foresight when choosing the Hebrews and seeing how they would be treated today as being labeled "black." It is directly from Nimrod that the idolatry of pagan Gods, including the leaders themselves being perceived as Gods, that this idolatry was introduced into the culture of the Hebrews, Nimrod exalting himself as a God and his wife as a Goddess.

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