Post by truthteacher2007 on Aug 2, 2010 23:57:27 GMT -5
The Torah of Moshe extensively details laws of "leprosy."
This was an affliction which in humans turns the skin pale
and the hair white or yellow. Lepers who turned pale from
head to foot could pass the trait on to their descendants
and were not considered impure.
Manetho writes of two royal advisers [of Ramses II]
suggesting the expulsion of a population of "lepers"
and such from Egypt which we infer as the origins of
the Judeans of Manetho's time. He writes that those
to be cast out were led by a man named Osarsif from
Heliopolis who changed his name to Moses demanding
of the "impure" people stationed in Avaris that they slay
roast and eat the sacred animals and cease worship of
the gods. The then reigning pharaoh was supposed to
have fought the impure people and their foreign allies to
the point of pursuing those in retreat clear to the border of
Syria.
The type of leprosy you point out would suggest the ancient Hebrews were white
Just keep in mind that terms like Black and White are relative to the individual and culture they belong to. Just because you perceive a person to be "white" does not mean that that is the way they see themselves. And by the sam token, you may see someone who you do not consider white, yet that is the way they see themselves. If you want to know what the Hebrews looked like, go to Palestine, they are still there, they haven't left. You will find people of all shades including the deepest black. Given its geographic location, this should be expected.
However, having said that, you also have to keep in mind that these people had no concept of race as we do today. Black and white o whatever were just adjectives for a person's literal skin color. Therefore, if a man with black skin married a woman with white skin and they had a child, the child would not automatically be considered black, or white, unless that was the skin color they came out with. Quite ofthen in that part of the world you will hear people say that one of their parents is black, and yet they have no concept of being such themselves. Also, in the case of siblings where one is dark and the other light, they may say I am white, my brother is black. Even though they have the same mother and father, the lighter one would have no concept of being black himself because his skin isn't black.