ets.After the fall of Judah, there seem to be no more prominent figures spoken of who had a definite black heritage, but through the exile the prophecies abound concerning Egypt and Ethiopias fall and later reemergence. However, it may be worthy to note that this period of exile took place in Babylonia, whose native people were directly descendent of Cush.What Does it Mean?"It appears in literature from many periods of Old Testament history: in historical accounts and prophetic oracles; in Psalms and in the literature of love, the Song of Songs. From slaves to rulers, from court officials to authors who wrote parts of the Old Testament itself, from lawgivers to prophets, black peoples and their lands and individual black persons appear numerous times. In the veins of the Hebrew-Isrealite-Judahite-Jewish people flowed black blood." This quote Charles B. Copher used to close his study on the presence of the black/Negro in the Old Testament, and it seems the most appropriate way to close this essay as well. The black man and the black woman played a vital role in the story of Gods people. The Negro was a part of the story not only as a friend at times or foe at others, slave one generation and master the next, but the black races also often played the part of brother and sister, father and mother, son and daughter. The story of the Hebrew is not the story of a strictly Caucasian race that lived despising his distant Negro neighbors. Rather the story of the Hebrew is the story of a mixed race of people, not concerned with a color defined race, but unified under a common God through good times and bad, whether slave or free....
