Black Africans in the Bible

Is the Bible for White People Only?

By Dan Rogers

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Table of Contents

Evidence of Black Africans in the Bible

Bibliography

About the author

About the publisher

Grace Communion Seminary

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Evidence of Black Africans in the Bible

In 1992, I took a class at Emory University in Atlanta called “Introduction to the Old Testament.” As I read the various required textbooks for the course, I saw something I had not noticed before. Many Old Testament scholars, particularly European scholars of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, had written their books and commentaries on the Old Testament from the perspective that there were no people of color mentioned in the Scriptures.