[HitmanLV]

To be fair, there is evidence in the Old Testement that Moses married a black woman.

Scripture says the woman he married was a 'Kushite,' that is an Ethiopian woman, and I think to this day the Hebrew language uses the same (or similar) word for 'Ethiopian' and 'racially black' - Kushite.

[maine-iac7]

Well - far's I'm concerned, Charlton Heston was Moses and Yul Brynner the only Ramses there could ever be! They can't fool me. I know my history, :O)

[Squawk 8888]

Scripture says the woman he married was a 'Kushite,' that is an Ethiopian woman

Do you have a cite? I thought he married an Arab woman during his exile.

[nmh]

You are correct.

If your curious, look up what the names, Shem, Ham and Japheth mean.

Gen.6:10

[10] And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The odds are that Adam and Eve were medium skinned people. Not white. Not black but something in between.

[madison10]

Moses married TWO women. The first was a Midianite The second one was the Cushite.

[EveningStar]

Scripture says the woman he married was a 'Kushite,' that is an Ethiopian woman, and I think to this day the Hebrew language uses the same (or similar) word for 'Ethiopian' and 'racially black' - Kushite.

I've heard that too.

[William Terrell]

Apparently it was a political marriage, Moses being ruler in Cush. And apparently Moses never consumated the marriage. Do a Google search using "Cushite woman" and read some of the commentary on the Torah.

Rarely are things as simple as they appear on the surface.

[daylate-dollarshort]

Ethiopian? Ethiopia? Isn't that a suburb of Utica??

[yarddog]

I don't guess I know exactly what a Kushite is but will take your word that it is Ethiopian.

I once did a paper on Ethiopia and what the ancient people referred to as Ethiopia is not the same as the modern country although it might include the Northern part. It also includes part of Modern Yemen.

The ancient Greeks referred to all North Africans other than Egyptians as Ethiopians. They also called them Black although they were not Negroes.

I might mention that Winston Churchill noticed while visiting his troops in North Africa, that they were all as dark as the natives from being in the intense sun.