To prove how the ancient Israelites looked we must go to secular information from ancient historians who lived amongst these ancient people and described their appearance. First of all according to the Bible the ancient Israelites looked like the Egyptians so much that they were able to be confused with them:
1. Joseph owns brothers cant tell him from an egyptian (Gen 42)
2. Moses hidden in egyptian royal family undetected amongst
egyptians (exodus 2)
3. Jethro's daughters mistake moses for an egyptian
(exodus 2:19)
4. Jesus Christ being taken into
Egypt to hide (matt 2)
5. The apostle Paul being mistaken by a Roman cheif captain for an egyptian(acts 21:38)
Now that we know that israelites could be confused for egyptians we know they had to have the same phenotype as well as similar complexion.
Let us see what the greek historians like Herodotus who is often called the Father of Greek history who lived from 485 BC to 425 BC and others said about the ancient African Egyptians, this is herodotus description of the ancient native egyptians:
" the Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of Skin"- Herodotus
This is another quote of herodotus from his histories:
Herodotus 2.104 " For it is plain to see that the colchians are Egyptians....I myself guessed it, partly because they (the colchians)are dark skinned and wooly haired."
Appollodorus(180 bc), a Greek, calls Egypt "the country of the black footed ones."
According to Diodorus(90 bc), Ethiopia populated egypt, "the ethiopeans say that egypt is one of their
colonies, led into egypt by osiris"
Strabo (63 bc) says "the egyptians settled in ethiopea and colchi"
Ammianus Marcellinus Roman historian 330 ad writes "The men of egypt are mostly brown or
black with a skinny desiccated look"
Aristotle (320 bc) " those who are too black are cowards like, for instance, the Egyptians and
ethiopeans"
Aeschylus(480 bc) in his play "The suppliants" says: "I can see the egyptians crew with their black
limbs and white tunics"
The greek writer Lucian (180 bc)- presents a dialogue between two greeks, Lycinus and Timoloas. Describing an Egyptian boy
Lycinus says: "This boy is not merely black, he has thick lips and his legs are too thin"
Now if the Judeans were regularly mistaken for ancient Egyptians they had to have the same exact phenotype as the same ancient egyptians herodotus said had black skin, thick lips and woolly hair. Lets look at another secular source lets go to writings of the Roman historian Tacitus:
Tacitus histories Book 5, " Many, again, say that they(the judeans) were a race of Ethiopian origin"
Why would many Romans believe that the Jews were a race of Ethiopian people, if the jews didnt have black skin, thick lips and woolly hair like the Ethiopians?
Lets continue with Tacitus on that same vol 5 "many others think that they were an Egyptian stock, which in the reign of Cepheus was forced to migrate by fear and hatred."
Why would many Romans believe that the Jews were a race of Egyptian people, if the jews didnt have black skin, thick lips and woolly hair like Herodotus described the Egyptians?
These are all secular sources describing how the Judeans looked, and there is no secular source anywhere describing the ancient Israelites as resembling modern "middle eastern" turkish mongrels or caucasians. The bible gave numerous examples that lines up perfectly with what the secular ancient european historians and scholars wrote.
The attached images, currently housed in the British Museum, depict the Judeans with nappy hair pleading for their lives following the siege of Lachish, as portrayed by the Assyrians themselves.
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Southwest Palace (Nineveh), located in Asia, Middle East, Iraq (North), Kouyunjik, Southwest Palace (Nineveh)
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To prove how the ancient Israelites looked we must go to secular information from ancient historians who lived amongst these ancient people and described their appearance. First of all according to the Bible the ancient Israelites looked like the Egyptians so much that they were able to be confused with them:
1. Joseph owns brothers cant tell him from an egyptian (Gen 42)
2. Moses hidden in egyptian royal family undetected amongst
egyptians (exodus 2)
3. Jethro's daughters mistake moses for an egyptian
(exodus 2:19)
4. Jesus Christ being taken into
Egypt to hide (matt 2)
5. The apostle Paul being mistaken by a Roman cheif captain for an egyptian(acts 21:38)
Now that we know that israelites could be confused for egyptians we know they had to have the same phenotype as well as similar complexion.
Let us see what the greek historians like Herodotus who is often called the Father of Greek history who lived from 485 BC to 425 BC and others said about the ancient African Egyptians, this is herodotus description of the ancient native egyptians:
" the Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of Skin"- Herodotus
This is another quote of herodotus from his histories:
Herodotus 2.104 " For it is plain to see that the colchians are Egyptians....I myself guessed it, partly because they (the colchians)are dark skinned and wooly haired."
Appollodorus(180 bc), a Greek, calls Egypt "the country of the black footed ones."
According to Diodorus(90 bc), Ethiopia populated egypt, "the ethiopeans say that egypt is one of their
colonies, led into egypt by osiris"
Strabo (63 bc) says "the egyptians settled in ethiopea and colchi"
Ammianus Marcellinus Roman historian 330 ad writes "The men of egypt are mostly brown or
black with a skinny desiccated look"
Aristotle (320 bc) " those who are too black are cowards like, for instance, the Egyptians and
ethiopeans"
Aeschylus(480 bc) in his play "The suppliants" says: "I can see the egyptians crew with their black
limbs and white tunics"
The greek writer Lucian (180 bc)- presents a dialogue between two greeks, Lycinus and Timoloas. Describing an Egyptian boy
Lycinus says: "This boy is not merely black, he has thick lips and his legs are too thin"
Now if the Judeans were regularly mistaken for ancient Egyptians they had to have the same exact phenotype as the same ancient egyptians herodotus said had black skin, thick lips and woolly hair. Lets look at another secular source lets go to writings of the Roman historian Tacitus:
Tacitus histories Book 5, " Many, again, say that they(the judeans) were a race of Ethiopian origin"
Why would many Romans believe that the Jews were a race of Ethiopian people, if the jews didnt have black skin, thick lips and woolly hair like the Ethiopians?
Lets continue with Tacitus on that same vol 5 "many others think that they were an Egyptian stock, which in the reign of Cepheus was forced to migrate by fear and hatred."
Why would many Romans believe that the Jews were a race of Egyptian people, if the jews didnt have black skin, thick lips and woolly hair like Herodotus described the Egyptians?
These are all secular sources describing how the Judeans looked, and there is no secular source anywhere describing the ancient Israelites as resembling modern "middle eastern" turkish mongrels or caucasians. The bible gave numerous examples that lines up perfectly with what the secular ancient european historians and scholars wrote.
The attached images, currently housed in the British Museum, depict the Judeans with nappy hair pleading for their lives following the siege of Lachish, as portrayed by the Assyrians themselves.
Findspot:
Excavated/Findspot: Southwest Palace (Nineveh), located in Asia, Middle East, Iraq (North), Kouyunjik, Southwest Palace (Nineveh)
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