Blackness, Israel, and the Jews

A Constitutional Investigation of Biblical Identity, African Descent, Jewish Continuity, Phenotype, and Genetics

von Stephanie Gentry

266 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Who were the Israelites-and what can history actually establish about their descendants? Few questions in biblical interpretation carry more inherited certainty, racial controversy, and human consequence. In Blackness, Israel, and the Jews, Stephanie Gentry subjects the strongest competing claims to a disciplined evidentiary test. Drawing from biblical texts, textual criticism, archaeology, inscriptions, imperial records, African and Jewish diaspora history, reception studies, phenotype evidence, and population genetics, this Constitutional Edition distinguishes categories too often collapsed together: ancestry and covenant, community and race, continuity and purity, resemblance and genealogy. The investigation addresses:

- Israel and Judah in the historical and archaeological record

- Exile, return, migration, conversion, and communal incorporation

- Jewish, Samaritan, African, and Black continuity claims

- Ancient appearance and the racial reception of biblical texts

- Population genetics, haplogroups, and the limits of DNA attribution

- Deuteronomy 28, the Atlantic slave trade, and modern Israelite identity claims

- The strongest arguments for and against broad Black-Israelite descent The resulting judgment neither erases African presence nor displaces documented Jewish continuity. It recognizes that peoples survive through descent, institutions, memory, migration, intermarriage, conversion, and change-while refusing to turn suffering, appearance, or a genetic marker into a tribal certificate. Carefully sourced and adversarially tested, this book offers a layered account of identity grounded in the available record and a responsible method for discussing one of the most contested questions in biblical history without surrendering rigor, proportion, or human dignity.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176130379
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published