Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions. He founded the Church of God and Saints of Christ church in 1896 in Kansas, with the claim that the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were the ancestors of black people ( Dorman JS. Furthermore, William Crowdy claimed to receive a revelation that African Americans were the descendants of the ancient Israelites and that Jesus was black. Later this resulted in the establishment of something called the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, around 1886 (Parfitt T. This view came to be popularized after a man named Frank Cherry claimed to receive a vision that God told him to declare a message that African Americans were the true descendants of the biblical Hebrews. Well, through scripture and ancient records you can.īlack Hebrew Israelites (also called African Hebrew Israelites, Black Jews, Black Hebrews, Black Israelites, or Hebrew Israelites) strongly–and often vehemently–assert that the ancient Israelites were black. Have you seem pictures that purport that Jesus was black? Jewish mosaic of the 5th century (Jim Haberman)Įver wonder about what the ancient Hebrews looked like?
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