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All I did was ask a ? You give me a dissertation.RACE IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE TORAH
IT WAS ALL ABOUT NATIONS
RACE IS A RECENT INVENTION .. A MADE UP SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
DIFFERENT TRIBES WERE OF DIFFERENT COMPLEXIONS
IM SURE THERE WERE JEWS WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED BLACK BY TODAYS STANDARDS BACK THEN .. BUT TO CLAIM ALL JEWS WERE BLACK IS FACTUALLY WRONG
- Egyptian tomb art, like that from the tomb of Seti I (ca. 13th century BCE), often depicted four main ethnic groups: Egyptians, Nubians (black Africans), Asiatics (Semitic people like Israelites), and Libyans.
- The "Asiatics" typically had lighter brown or olive-toned skin and distinctive beards and clothingânot the same representations used for Nubians, who were shown with very dark skin and different features.
- The Bible refers to Africans (e.g., Cushytes/Ethiopians) as distinct from Israelites.
- Skin color was not categorized in racial terms the way it is today. The concept of "black" as a race is modern.
- Ancient peoples identified more by language, culture, religion, and tribe than by skin tone.
1. Genetic Continuity in the Levant
- Ancient DNA from BronzeâAge Canaanite sites across presentâday Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan confirms that most presentâday populationsâincluding Jewish groups and Arabicâspeaking Levantinesâderive a major portion (often over 50%) of their ancestry from these ancient Levantines Wikipedia+15Biblical Archaeology Society+15Reddit+15.
- Modern groups genetically closest to those ancient people today include Lebanese, Druze, Samaritans, Palestinian Christians, and many Jewish communities (e.g. Iraqi, Sephardic, Mizrahi) with ~70â90% Levantine/Canaanite-related ancestry
- Modern Jewish Genetic Profiles
- Ashkenazi Jews typically show ~50â60% Levantine ancestry (ancient Israelite/Canaanite), plus a substantial Southern European component (30â40%), and modest European admixture WikipediaBiblical Archaeology SocietyReddit.
- Paternal-line studies (Yâchromosome) indicate strong Middle Eastern originsâespecially haplogroupâŻJâfound across Jewish communities and shared with nonâJewish Levantine populations like Palestinians and DruzeReddit+6Wikipedia+6twitter.com+6.
- Meanwhile, mitochondrial DNA (maternal lineages) reveals that around 80% of Ashkenazi Jewish maternal ancestry derives from prehistoric European groups, reflecting admixture with local European women during diasporic migrations.
Ancient Near Eastern Ethnography & Visual Evidence
- According to ancient Egyptian classification (e.g. Book of Gates), Levantine populations ("Asiatics") were represented with light brown or "pale" skin, distinct from black-skinned Nubians (Cushytes/Ethiopians) and oliveâbrown Egyptiansâindicating that Israelites were not depicted as SubâSaharan Africans Wikipedia.
- In Jewish literature, such as the Mishnah in Negaim, it says: