Saturday, February 25, 2006

African Historical Link to Christianity

Talk about someone challenging conventional wisdom....In the book "New Dimensions in African History, " Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan (scholar and Egyptologist) asserts that Africans along the Nile River were already into their 13th dynastic period before Abraham was born (p. 55). Check out his chronology of history and the various versions of the Bible here. In the book, he suggests that conventional biblical beliefs have been driven by colonialism: "...colonialism brings to us...history written by the conqueror for the conquered to read..." (p. 60).

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