Are the Hebrew Israelites Specifically “Black" People? Biblical Evidence I

The Complexion Confusion
 

Why do we think that the tribe of Judah is comprised specifically of “black" people?

There are several reasons but let's start with the Bible as we always do.
Biblical scripture points to the conclusion that those specifically called "black" people around the world (which has been reported to include Latinos and Native Indians) descended from the ancient Hebrews; regardless of what religion they may be practicing today. There are also Hebrews who did not take the trek with Moses and the tribe of Judah, Benjamin, and a good portion of the tribe of Levi. Most died in the city through starvation; were killed by the Romans; sold to Egypt, or taken to Rome for various Roman ‘sporting activities’ after their conquest. Still others remained in Africa and their ancestors are a testament to this. Most notable are the Southern African tribe called the Lemba and the Ethiopian Jews. The Ethiopian Jews are said to be the descendants of Israel's son, Dan. Those Ethiopians Jews who returned to Israel on their own are facing their own brand of persecution in their original homeland. I have yet to investigate the whereabouts of the remaining tribes. There has been speculation but I have not seen much in the way of proof. So until I do, I will comment on what I do know. Now back to the complexion confusion. Dividing people into "black" and "white" is a modern phenomenon that didn't exist in the ancient world. No one saw Yeshua and the Hebrews as "black" people. They had more of a regional thing going on. I myself am not keen on separating people by skin tone but from a historical standpoint, it helps us get a better understanding of the inhabitants of a particular place. And in case you didn't know by now, humankind originated from the loins of so-called black people. So were are all some percentage of "black." Someone pass this along to Paula Deen and Hulk Hogan for starters. And you can see the ancient rendering of Adam and Eve in my video about the Old Testament. There's more, although science doesn't specifically mention Adam and Eve, it does state that this is fact. You can look it up.
Now, to the curses mentioned in Deuteronomy 28 in concert with other accounts mentioned in Biblical text further support this claim. And I will add that the “olive” skinned Egyptians with which are the modern majority did not exist in ancient Egypt;  they are a product of the Arab invasion that took place in 616 to 629 AD. 
Israelites were shipped all over the world as slaves as stated in Deuteronomy 28:64 For the Lord will scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth to the other. Scriptural evidence suggests that the ancient Hebrews were darker skinned people. This is based on biblical accounts of the Hebrews and their marriage patterns and the multiple accounts of the inability of other people to discern between Hebrews and Egyptians. Egyptians are recorded as dark skinned people and Joseph, Paul, and Moses - all Hebrews - were mistaken for Egyptians in Biblical accounts: Moses' adoption by the Pharaoh's daughter in Exodus 2:

2 Now a man of the tribe of Levi married a Levite woman, 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months. 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. 4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him. 5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said. 7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?” 8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

The Pharaoh's daughter knew Moses was Hebrew but no one else did. If he was a much lighter complexion like that of the Askahani Jews or olive-skinned, this would not have been the case.

When Yahweh tested Moses' courage in Exodus 4: 

6Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous^a —it had become as white as snow. 7“Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

Some versions say, "it was restored like his former color."

 

I imagine that a fair-skinned person with a leprous outbreak and restoration wouldn't stand out as much. And here's an interesting tidbit, in the famous 1956 Charlton Heston version of the Ten Commandments, they left this verse out of the movie. Why leave out one of Yahweh's main encounters with Moses? Perhaps it was because it didn't fit the lie they were trying to sell.

Moses

When Paul asked the Greeks if he could speak with them in Acts 21:

37As they were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, “May I say something to you?” “Do you speak Greek?” he replied. 38“ Aren’t you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the ‘Assassins’’” into the wilderness? 39 But Paul answered, “I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Now I beg you to allow me to speak to the people.”

 

Paul

 

In Genesis 42:3-8, it tells of how Joseph was unrecognizable among the Egyptians when his brothers came across him again: "And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt... And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him."

Some argue that these men had acclimated to the culture and the surroundings in which they found themselves in their manner of speech and dress. And for this reason, they may have been mistaken for Egyptians. But these scriptures combined with other circumstantial evidence supporting the real identity of the Hebrews makes this a moot point.

These are my videos:

The Real Identity of the Old Testament Biblical Figures https://youtu.be/Z2dF8FwFHkc

 

The Real Identity of the New Testament Biblical Figures & Yeshua the Messiah/Jesus Christ https://youtu.be/AKwaerbACUw