Black Hebrew Israelites

covenant, where can they be found in the bible and how do they relate to the ancient near east. Is it possible that covenants are not just a biblical idea but instead an idea that can be found throughout the ancient near east? What is a covenant The Hebrew word for covenant is berith (ברית), it can be understood…

real identity and the hardships his biological family endured while he was living a lavish life. He made the choice to leave the family who raised him and to join his real Hebrew family. This difficult choice had him banished from Egypt but his faith in God remained strong and like that, God gave him the task of leading the Israelites from slavery into the promised land. Moses never saw himself as a person that God would choose to lead.” But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before…

Any rich story weaves in symbolism and foreshadowing. This enhances the meaning of the narrative, gives the audience clues to the future, and sets the stage for multiple themes. The drama of the Bible checks all of these boxes and then some. Although there are many characters in the first formative years of Israel’s existence, the character of Joshua, leads Israel into a temporary Promised Land, which foreshadows the role that Jesus plays in the unfolding narrative. Joshua was critical to the…

Idolatry became very problematic in the Old Testament especially in Israel. Idolatry is defined as worshiping false gods. Romans 1:21 described it as the people “[Forsaking] god and sank into ignorance and moral corruption.” God gave us a set of rules known as the Ten Commandments, the first one states that “you shall have no other gods before [him]” (Exodus 20:3). This was a vital commandment so when the people began to break this law god was furious. Even after god had himself more times than…

The Israelites lived in the company of the Canaanities, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites and they married their daughters and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they worshiped their gods (NRSV, p.169). God left those nations behind after the death of Joshua in order to test the Israelites (NRSV, p. 169). The LORD wanted to know if the Israelites “care to walk in the way of the LORD” (NRSV, p. 169). The act of intermarrying and worshiping…

as the Israelite. The Israelite leader, Moses, a Hebrew, born into the tribe of Levi raised by the pharaoh’s daughter as if he were an Egyptian prince was known as a solitary leader educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action (Gordon-Bennett, 2018). Therefore, he was set apart from his people, even in his childhood, God was preparing Moses to lead His children, the Israelites, into the Promised Land. In about 1250 BCE, the leader Moses rallied the Hebrews…

while God is stilled explained using anthropomorphism, the Israelites develop a less individual relationship with God but more of a respectful, fearful association. They must have this perspective as well as an intermediary, often Moses or sacrifice, because of God’s overwhelming glory. His magnificence is depicted as too great, so otherworldly, and beyond human grasp that to even see Him is dangerous. When Exodus 16 describes the Israelites being supplied with manna in the mornings and…

King itself. Regardless the Babylonians respected the kingdom of Judea, in which they named King a relative to the former king. In 587 when, after a new hebrew rebellion, Jerusalem was conquered and the Temple of Solomon was set fire, this concluded in a new exile of the influential Jewish to Babylon. In a sense, the exile is the punishment the Hebrews receive for not having listened to their prophets that were delivering a message from the Lord, they distanced themselves…

God's omnipotence. The Book of Amos is attributed to him. "Amos saw God as personally in control of all the world. Amos made clear that, contrary to the view within pagan religious and among the majority of Israelites, God was not only the God of Israel but of all the world. While the average Israelite may have remembered with national pride the special place of Israel's exodus from Egypt, Amos maintained that God was also behind the early movements of the Philistines and Arameans (Amos 9:7)"…

The Exodus, second book of the Pentateuch, is the book of liberation and of the Covenant. Exodus comes from the Greek language and “means, a going out, a departure, a procession.” The original Hebrew title comes from the first words at the beginning of the book, “w'ëLeh sh'môt that means (And these are the names),” which refers to those who initially entered Egypt, seventy in total (Ex 1:5 NRSV), with Jacob and under the protection of Joseph. The Exodus is divided symmetrically into two main…