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Hebrewisms of West Africa from Nile to Niger With the Jews by Joseph J. Williams ISBN: 0819601942
Abitbol, Michel: The Jews of North Africa During the Second World War
A New, Refreshing Frontier in Research into African History. October 19,
1999
Reviewer: Colleen Birchett (cbirchett@yahoo.com) from United States --
Chicago
This book is a goldmine of information that uncovers Hebrewisms in African
rituals and history all over Africa. It is also connected with some very
recent research by antoher Amazon.com writer, Dr. Linda Thomas of Garrett
Evangelical Theological Seminary. As an anthropologist/theologian, she
studied water purification rituals among Africans in Uguleto, South Africa.
These rituals are very close to those in the Old Testament. The content in
Dr. Williams' book further connects these types of rituals as they occur
throughout the continent Africa. It is an amazing breakthrough in research.
I have used the contents of this book in many interesting ways. Just the
other day, I was talking with an 80-year old woman at church, whose mother
came from Madagascar, as a slave. I was able to share with her some of the
information in the book about the Hebrewisms found in the Africans of
Madagascar (some of whom were brought to South Africa as slaves by the
Dutch). I was able to tell her that it may be possible that her ancestors
might have descended from the ancient Black Jews of Canaan, who migrated
down through Africa at various points in their history, and whose Jewish
rituals were discovered by various historians at various periods. She is an
African American. This is not the first time that I have presented this
information in order to establish the fact that Jesus Christ, and the Jews
of the Old Testament in many ways, were ancestors of the Africans who were
brought here, from all over the continent of Africa as slaves.
It should be in the collection of every researcher into the history of
Africans on the continent and throughout the Diaspora.
Sir Sidney L. Davis, Jr., ND, HGIHS, FSAI, MEOLJ
The Honour Guard of the Imperial House of Sellassie
The African Roots of Biblical Judaism and Christianity
PROCLAIMING THE SABBATH MORE FULLY
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