Bantu Hebrew Israelites

Bantu Hebrew Israelites
Author: Thomas Gakuru
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2018-07-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781722968113

This narrative will challenge your life in more ways than one. It will challenge your spirituality and religion; Your ethnicity; Nationality; And your relationships all round.The black people who are not Africans (Ethiopians, Egyptians, Libyans or Canaanites) or who do not know who they are, will be especially challenged about their Nationality.Other people will be enlightened on who the real Israelites are, their current state and how to relate.Thomas, was born in 1960, in the British protectorate of Kenya. This was a turbulent time for the Kenyans as they were going through the throes of birthing the modern nation of Kenya. The British colonizers had declared a state of emergency as an excuse for using maximum force to forestall the fight for independence. The struggle bore fruit as the rudimentary native forces led mostly by the Kikuyu's, who were most aggrieved, overcame the might of the British Empire. Kenya gained independence in 1963.He grew in this environment, to complete his education studies in 1978 at Thika High School, and there after pursued tertiary education in Economics and Administration. He attained the rank of Captain in the Army, and as Airline Transport Pilot. He has received 5 Awards and Achievements from the Kenyan and United States Governments.

Urban Apologetics

Urban Apologetics
Author: Eric Mason
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 031010095X

Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christianity and shows how the gospel of Jesus Christ—rather than popular, socioreligious alternatives—restores our identity. African Americans have long confronted the challenge of dignity destruction caused by white supremacy. While many have found meaning and restoration of dignity in the black church, others have found it in ethnocentric socioreligious groups and philosophies. These ideologies have grown and developed deep traction in the black community and beyond. Revisionist history, conspiracy theories, and misinformation about Jesus and Christianity are the order of the day. Many young African Americans are disinterested in Christianity and others are leaving the church in search of what these false religious ideas appear to offer, a spirituality more indigenous to their history and ethnicity. Edited by Dr. Eric Mason and featuring a top-notch lineup of contributors, Urban Apologetics is the first book focused entirely on cults, religious groups, and ethnocentric ideologies prevalent in the black community. The book is divided into three main parts: Discussions on the unique context for urban apologetics so that you can better understand the cultural arguments against Christianity among the Black community. Detailed information on cults, religious groups, and ethnic identity groups that many urban evangelists encounter—such as the Nation of Islam, Kemetic spirituality, African mysticism, Hebrew Israelites, Black nationalism, and atheism. Specific tools for urban apologetics and community outreach. Ultimately, Urban Apologetics applies the gospel to black identity to show that Jesus is the only one who can restore it. This is an essential resource to equip those doing the work of ministry and apology in urban communities with the best available information.

Hybrid Hate

Hybrid Hate
Author: Tudor Parfitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190083352

Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt investigates the development of antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and race theory in the West from the Renaissance to the Second World War. Parfitt explains how Jews were often perceived as Black in medieval Europe, and the conflation of Jews and Blacks continued throughout the period of the Enlightenment. With the discovery of a community of Black Jews in Loango in West Africa in 1777, and later of Black Jews in India, the Middle East, and other parts of Africa, the notion of multiracial Jews was born. Over the following centuries, the figure of the hybrid Black Jew was drawn into the maelstrom of evolving theories about race hierarchies and taxonomies. Parfitt analyses how Jews and Blacks were increasingly conflated in a racist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the period of the Third Reich, as the two fundamental prejudices of the West were combined. Hybrid Hate offers a new interpretation of the rise of antisemitism and anti-Black racism in Europe, and casts light on contemporary racist discourses in the United States and Europe.

First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa

First-Century Christians in Twenty-First Century Africa
Author: Nathan P. Devir
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004507701

Millions of African Christians who consider themselves genealogical descendants of one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel—in other words, Jewish by ethnicity, but Christian in terms of faith—are increasingly choosing a religious affiliation that honors both of these identities. Their choice: Messianic Judaism. Messianic adherents emulate the Christians of the first century, observing the Jewish commandments while also affirming the salvational grace of Yeshua (Jesus). As the first comparative ethnography of such "fulfilled Jews" on the African continent, this book presents case studies that will enrich our understanding of one of global Christianity’s most overlooked iterations.

The Black Jews of Africa

The Black Jews of Africa
Author: Edith Bruder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2008-06-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 019533356X

"This book presents, one by one, the different groups of Black Jews in Western central, eastern, and southern Africa and the ways in which they have used and imagined their oral history and traditional customs to construct a distinct Jewish identity. It explores the ways in which Africans have interacted with the ancient mythological sub-strata of both western and African ideas of Judaism."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

The Lemba

The Lemba
Author: Magdel Le Roux
Publisher: Unisa Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Lemba people regard themselves as Jews or Israelites who migrated southwards into Yemen and later as traders into Africa. Many of their rituals suggest a Semitic influence or resemblances, embedded in an African culture. In 2010, the book was also translated into Venda, an indigenous language within South Africa, and has been reprinted due to popular local demand.

The Lost Tribes of Israel

The Lost Tribes of Israel
Author: Tudor Parfitt
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780297819349

Tudor Parfitt examines a myth which is based on one of the world's oldest mysteries - what happened to the lost tribes of Israel? Christians and Jews alike have attached great importance to the legendary fate of these tribes which has had a remarkable impact on their ideologies throughout history. Each tribe of Israel claimed descent from one of the twelve sons of Jacob and the land of Israel was eventually divided up between them. Following a schism which formed after the death of Solomon, ten of the tribes set up an independent northern kingdom, whilst those of Judah and Levi set up a separate southern kingdom. In 721BC the ten northern tribes were ethnically cleansed by the Assyrians and the Bible states they were placed: in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan and in the city of Medes. The Bible also foretold that one day they would be reunited with the southern tribes in the final redemption of the people of Israel. Their subsequent history became a tapestry of legend and hearsay. The belief persisted that they had been lost in some remote part of the world and there were countless suggestions and claims as to where.