Christian Legacies

General Category => Christian Legacies Main Forum => Topic started by: Phidippides on January 24, 2019, 06:01:02 PM

Title: Black Hebrew Israelites
Post by: Phidippides on January 24, 2019, 06:01:02 PM

They've been in the news a lot the past week.  How much, if any, are the related to actual Jews in terms of theology?  To whom do they appeal? 

Title: Re: Black Hebrew Israelites
Post by: Donald Baker on January 26, 2019, 09:11:59 AM

I'm not very knowledgeable on this subject.  I've read along the way that the real Ark of the Covenant was supposed to be in Ethiopia hidden somewhere.  I don't know how true that is, but it is a possible connection that the Ethiopians claim gives them legitimacy as one of the lost tribes of ancient Israel.  I do know that Israel takes in many black Jews as part of the Aliyah or the return from the Diaspora.  So there is that.