Moses married two black women, and the bride of Christ IS BLACK.
The Bride
5"I am black but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, Like the tents of Kedar, Like the curtains of Solomon. 6"Do not stare at me because I am swarthy, For the sun has burned me. My mother's sons were angry with me; They made me caretaker of the vineyards, But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.
Awesome quote from The Song of Solomom - the girl in the story is truly fascinating when seeing what she had to deal with. Would be amazing to see what the the girl in Song of Songs looked like, as the ways Solomon described here was truly beautiful. I'd imagine close to this:
Beautiful and sunburned....
Song of Songs 1:5
Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem,
dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon. Do not stare at me because
I am dark, because
I am darkened by the sun. My mothers sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard
I had to neglect.
Tell me, you whom I love,
where you graze your flock
and where you rest your sheep at midday.
Why should I be like a veiled woman
beside the flocks of your friends?
Song of Songs 1:4-6
When it comes to genetics and how they impact complexion, seeing the arguments can be interesting. In example Some have argued that Abraham was a Chaldean. ..that Isaac married a Chaldean... Jacob married a Chaldean...and they say that the Syrians and Iraqis are modern-day Chaldeans. Many say the Hebrews couldn't of been black because the Chaldeans today are not "black", nor are they "white" (in their view)---with others saying that the Hebrews looked something similar to modern-day Iraqis.
However, as it stands, there's already debate on the issue of how people evolve in their ethnic looks...as just because a people group looks one way today doesn't mean they always looked like that. There's no evidence at all to verify that the sons of Jacob in any way looked like modern-day Iraqis when the areas they came from had people known to have African-features. If they married people from areas near Iraq, that's different. Throughout history, there've been many variations of Hebrew people in all colors/shapes and sizes, be it Chinese Jews or Indian Jews or Sephardic and many others. They came from people all over the world. Moses married a woman from Cush (
Numbers 12:1-3 ) - to be even more technical, according to Exodus 2-3, it is in Midiana region in northwestern Arabia*that Moses meets the woman who was his first wife.... a Midianite woman named Zipporah. And there were many others in the OT who came from countries all over where the complexion was of a dark nature
The dynamics of racial makeup is very fascinating - seeing that people of darker complexion were more than present in the area since the time of Abraham. Not many people are aware of that reality of how
there were
Negroid peoples from multiple directions (be it the East or the South) who came into places like Egypt long before the time of Moses and the Exodus account - even Rameses II (the Pharoah in the time of Moses) was of darker complexion.
In Eurocentric schools of thought, the idea has often been ignored unfortunately despite what most modern scholarship has pointed from further south penetrated Egypt at times in her long history - in consistency with the ways that many Egyptians of dark complexion appear ....which consistently is ignored by people who wish to assume the Egyptians did not have black features rather than setting aside the bias and addressing the facts for what they are. And even with others saying that Egyptians today (who are lighter-skinned) are the definition of what ancient Egyptians ALL looked like in the time of Moses - it is fascinating to consider the reality that even the Copt people arent indigenous Egyptians since they migrated to Egypt just like the Arabs. All one needs to do is Google
Genetic variation and population structure of Sudanese populations as seen in
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Ketians (Egyptians) were and always have been African - as they migrated from the South, which meant that they originated in the southern part of Africa...and the Bantu are their ancestral lineage. As an
other noted wisely:
According to Jean Francois Champollion ( French archaeologist) who deciphered the Rosette Stone which indicated that ancient Egyptians in their own handwriting stated that they came from the highlands of Ethiopia. People living in the Horn of Africa ( East Africa) do have mid-brown to brown complexions with Caucasoid feathers; much like people from modern day countries of Somali, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. Not all black people are Negroid. Some are Caucasoid, Austroloid, or a half way between both phenotypes. These people may possible mixed with people from the Arabian peninsula. The Copts of Egypt are mixed with people of Greek and other Mid-eastern ancestry and would not be a good example of how the ancient Egyptians looked. The Beji people of southern Egyptian would more closely related to the ancient people of Egypt. Ancient Egyptians civilization was original found by people who traveled from south east of Egypt around (Eritrea/Somalia) who followed the river north and then integrated with nomes of lower Egypt to establish the Kingdom. During later periods of history outside populations called ( hyskos) moved into to Egypt mixing with the indigenous population and becoming a melting pot. Nubians from the south of Egypt and northern Sudan where conscripted into the Egyptians army and culture accompanied with Libyans and other populations from the Levant ( middle east) who varied in skin tones from light to dusky to dark. Due to the continued flow of people from surrounding countries skin complexion varied; but for the most part many of the ancient Egyptians where dark and would be considered black by modern standards. The ancients Egyptians had a 3,000 year history. Greeks and Romans did not conquer Egypt until later part of the dynasty era around 500BC. The Arab invasion took place in 700AD and through migration and replacement change the Egypt population. The original name of Egypt is Khem, Cham or the land of Ham as stated in the bible.
For reference on s
ome of the scholarship on the matter, one can go here or here: