"REVEALING" (BLACK WOMEN) IN THE BIBLE There are many "Black Woman" in the Bible - all descendants of "Ham," (Noah's dark-skinned son) Gen.10:6-29. However, because "all" women in the Bible are always depicted as "White/Caucasian," in books, pictures, films, sculptures, and even pictorial Bibles, you wouldn't know that! So, today, we will "Unveil" (Black Women) in the Bible! There are "32" women featured in this book. Not only are their stories finally being told, but each is also displayed with a beautiful, colorful photo that represents what they could have looked like during their lifetime (Old Testament) as well as (New Testament) eras. To better understand the diversity of peoples on the earth, we must get an understanding of "how" it came about. Here's how it all began:When God decided to end the old world with a "flood" (saving only Noah, his wife, "3" sons and their wives); "8" people in all, the entire earth became populated from these "8" people who were already descendants of mixed races of people (Gen.7:13).No one was cursed "Black" as African-Americans have been told by religious, racist White people, but were already Black when they entered the Ark. Noah and his sons were descendants of Adam and Eve (who were also dark-skinned - created from the dark soil of the earth - the "dust" or "ground," (Gen.2:7).Scripture lists each of their descendants. Noah's wife was "Caucasian," but Noah, himself, was a "dark-skinned" man. We draw this conclusion by the sons Noah produced. Noah's oldest son, (Japheth) carried more of his mother's "Caucasian/melanin deficient" gene. According to Scripture, his descendants all migrated to a colder climate known today as (Europe). There are only "4" short verses in the book of (Genesis) stating where Japheth's descendants eventually settled - nothing more, no history whatsoever! When we research each of the places listed, they are all, indeed, regions that make up "Europe" (Gen.10:2-5); the homeland of the White race.The entire rest of the "Old Testament," and "New Testament" is the history of Noah's other (2) sons: "(Shem)," and "(Ham)!" Shem was Noah's middle son. He inherited a balanced mixture of both parents; taking on more of a typical Middle Eastern complexion (light tan/brown). The history of Shem's descendants covers "11" verses in Genesis, (Gen.10:21-32). But the Jews living in Israel today are "not" bloodline descendants of "Shem" (ancient Israel) - they converted to Judaism many years later. They are called "Ashkenazi Jews," meaning, they are bloodline descendants of "Japheth" (melanin-deficient Caucasian)!This explains why it appears strange to non-White races of people that racist Whites hate White Jews (they all look alike). Both carry the same melanin-deficient DNA of "Japheth!" The only difference is their religion.But Noah's youngest son, "(Ham)" inherited his father's (dark-skinned)! And his descendants' history covers more verses than his "2" brother (Japheth, and Shem), "14" in all (Gen.10:6-20). Both "Shem" and "Ham's" history can be followed throughout the Old and New Testaments. And surprisingly, Shem and Ham's descendants married interracially regularly, i.e., "Moses" (Shem descendant, married "Zipporah," Ham descendant) Num.12. So, here's where we find the history of (Black Women) in the Bible. So, come, learn the hidden spiritual history of (Black Women) in the Bible!

With this careful, nuanced exegetical volume in the New Studies in Biblical Theology, J. Daniel Hays provides a clear theological foundation for life in contemporary multiracial cultures and challenges churches to pursue racial unity in Christ.

“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as she anticipated the collapse of Jim Crow segregation and pondered the fate of African Americans. Following more than half a century of organizing and struggling against racism in American society, sexism in the National Baptist Convention, and the racism and paternalism of white women and the Southern Baptist Convention, Burroughs knew that black Americans would need more than religion to survive and to advance socially, economically, and politically. Jesus, jobs, and justice are the threads that weave through two hundred years of black women’s experiences in America. Bettye Collier-Thomas’s groundbreaking book gives us a remarkable account of the religious faith, social and political activism, and extraordinary resilience of black women during the centuries of American growth and change. It shows the beginnings of organized religion in slave communities and how the Bible was a source of inspiration; the enslaved saw in their condition a parallel to the suffering and persecution that Jesus had endured. The author makes clear that while religion has been a guiding force in the lives of most African Americans, for black women it has been essential. As co-creators of churches, women were a central factor in their development. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice explores the ways in which women had to cope with sexism in black churches, as well as racism in mostly white denominations, in their efforts to create missionary societies and form women’s conventions. It also reveals the hidden story of how issues of sex and sexuality have sometimes created tension and divisions within institutions. Black church women created national organizations such as the National Association of Colored Women, the National League of Colored Republican Women, and the National Council of Negro Women. They worked in the interracial movement, in white-led Christian groups such as the YWCA and Church Women United, and in male-dominated organizations such as the NAACP and National Urban League to demand civil rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities, and to protest lynching, segregation, and discrimination. And black women missionaries sacrificed their lives in service to their African sisters whose destiny they believed was tied to theirs. Jesus, Jobs, and Justice restores black women to their rightful place in American and black history and demonstrates their faith in themselves, their race, and their God.

_ "Unveiling" Black people in the Bible _Just like history books were written declaring Christopher Columbus discovered America, and that turned out not to be the truth; the same can be said about the Bible. The world has been led to believe that God's first created human beings [Adam and Eve] were created as Caucasian. Well, that has turned out to be a lie as well. How can we be certain this is a lie? By carefully reading God's Holy Scriptures - for Scripture tells us that God created His very first human beings from the ground; the earth (Gen.2:7)! What color is the ground, or earth? The earth is brown in color; not white! Science backs this fact: It is scientifically impossible for (2) Caucasians to reproduce a person of color. They do not carry melanin in their DNA to do so. Given this fact, we now know that God's first created human beings were, without a doubt, "Black" because people of color do exist. Given this truth, is it not prudent to conclude that Adam and Eve's children (Cain, Able and Seth) were also children of color? Would not "Noah" and most of our ancient biblical characters also be people of color? Science has also proven that (2) very dark-skinned people "can" and "has" produced a much lighter-skinned person (Albino), and even Caucasian. Moses is considered the father of Judaism. He was married to a dark-skinned Ethiopian woman (Numb.12:1). Yet every illustration (picture, sculpture, or film) depicts Moses' wife as Caucasian. This would make Moses' only (2) sons of color. These sons went on to reproduce many descendants of color (1Chron.23:14-17). The words and stories of the Bible are, indeed, true. However, when you take all of our very early biblical characters and their history and place someone else's face on it, this distorts God's truth - making it a lie; triggering deception. This is called manipulation - an asset of Satan; not God! This book unearths this "buried" true history of Black people in the Bible. Chapter (1) Biblical Black History .......................................10 -138The Unveiling of TruthsSolomon Islands (Black people with blonde hair and blue eyes)Noah (A Black man)Japheth (Noah's White son)Ham (Noah's dark-skinned son)Cush (Noah's Black grandson)Nimrod (Son of Cush - Black grandson of Noah)Canaan (Son of Ham - grandson of Noah - and "The Promised Land")Shem (Noah's tan/brown-skinned son of color)Moses (Married an Ethiopian woman)Gershom and Eliezer (Moses' Ethiopian Black sons)Judah (Son of Jacob marries daughter of Shua - a Canaanite Black woman)Judah and Black race of people as IsraelitesSimeon (Son of Jacob married an Ethiopian woman) Tribe of Levi (God's Priestly order)Joseph (son of Jacob marries Asenath - a dark-skinned Egyptian woman)Caleb (Black spy from the Tribe of Judah)Othniel (Caleb's dark-skinned brother from the Tribe of Judah)Rahab (Dark-skinned Canaanite woman who married Salmon from the Tribe of Judah)Boaz (Son of Rahab and Salmon (both dark-skinned - from the Tribe of Judah)King David (Bloodline Tribe of Judah - great, great, great, grandmother was Rahab). Why was the Nation of Israel God's Chosen Children? King Solomon (Son of David - Black King of Israel)Israel becomes (2) separate nations - under (Solomon's son Rehoboam) - Tribe of JudahNineveh (Founded by Nimrod - Noah's Black grandson)Ethiopian Eunuch (Gospel first preached to Ethiopians - New Testament)Simon (The dark-skinned Canaanite Disciple of Jesus)Jesus (A man of color)The curse of Canaan (How Blacks lost their wealth and power)

As author translates the Hebrew and Greek text (manuscripts) of the Old and New Testament of the Bible into English; the following is discovered:* Blacks Great Biblical Heritage* Origin of Blacks Revealed* Black Skin: A Sign of Prosperity* The Origin of Whites and Jew Revealed

Perhaps no other group of people has been as much formed by biblical texts and tropes as African Americans. From literature and the arts to popular culture and everyday life, the Bible courses through black society and culture like blood through veins. Despite the enormous recent interest in African American religion, relatively little attention has been paid to the diversity of ways in which African Americans have utilized the Bible.African Americans and the Bibleis the fruit of a four-year collaborative research project directed by Vincent L. Wimbush and funded by the Lilly Endowment. It brings together scholars and experts (sixty-eight in all) from a wide range of academic and artistic fields and disciplines--including ethnography, cultural history, and biblical studies as well as art, music, film, dance, drama, and literature. The focus is on the interaction between the people known as African Americans and that complex of visions, rhetorics, and ideologies known as the Bible. As such, the book is less about the meaning(s) of the Bible than about the Bible and meaning(s), less about the world(s) of the Bible than about how worlds and the Bible interact--in short, about how a text constructs a people and a people constructs a text. It is about a particular sociocultural formation but also about the dynamics that obtain in the interrelation between any group of people and sacred texts in general. ThusAfrican Americans and the Bibleprovides an exemplum of sociocultural formation and a critical lens through which the process of sociocultural formation can be viewed.

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community’s fight for personhood and freedom. Such is the central tension in the identity and mission of the Black church in the United States. For decades the Black church and Black theology have held each other at arm’s length. Black theology has emphasized the role of Christian faith in addressing racism and other forms of oppression, arguing that Jesus urged his disciples to seek the freedom of all peoples. Meanwhile, the Black church, even when focused on social concerns, has often emphasized personal piety rather than social protest. With the rising influence of white evangelicalism, biblical fundamentalism, and the prosperity gospel, the divide has become even more pronounced. In The Divided Mind of the Black Church, Raphael G. Warnock, Senior Pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, the spiritual home of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., traces the historical significance of the rise and development of Black theology as an important conversation partner for the Black church. Calling for honest dialogue between Black and womanist theologians and Black pastors, this fresh theological treatment demands a new look at the church’s essential mission.