tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post2406062903189630210..comments2024-03-24T11:03:03.106-07:00Comments on Just Genesis : Edo, Edom, Idu and IdumeaAlice C. Linsleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-40875444974105012012017-09-26T05:07:13.735-07:002017-09-26T05:07:13.735-07:00Eyes wide open,
Herod was of Edomite ancestry and...Eyes wide open,<br /><br />Herod was of Edomite ancestry and called himself "King of the Jews". His wise men knew that the true King would be born in Bethlehem, a Horite Hebrew settlement. I Chronicles 4:4 lists Hur (Hor) as the "father of Bethlehem". <br /><br />After David became king, he brought the Ark of the Covenant "from the house of Abinadab, that was in Gibeah” (Saul's hometown) to Jerusalem (II Sam. 6:1-12). However, for three months the ark rested in David’s hometown of Bethlehem in the house of Obed-Edom.Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-71040229276040978852017-09-26T03:40:04.035-07:002017-09-26T03:40:04.035-07:00I read somewhere that King Herod was an Edomite. I...I read somewhere that King Herod was an Edomite. Is this true?Eyes wide openhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01474556872903026305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-46806680182923732092014-03-30T15:01:51.542-07:002014-03-30T15:01:51.542-07:00Thanks, Sidney, for that thoughtful comment. I ful...Thanks, Sidney, for that thoughtful comment. I fully appreciate the difficult task you describe. Native Americans struggle with this also.<br /><br />My efforts are to recover antecedents of peoples, religious practices and beliefs using the tools of cultural anthropology. Digging into antecedents is like finding a crossroads with many divergent paths, but all the paths lead back to Africa.<br />Alice C. Linsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13069827354696169270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-1791084720181268392014-03-29T17:27:06.752-07:002014-03-29T17:27:06.752-07:00Thank you for this information. I do note the ling...Thank you for this information. I do note the linguistic similarities with the historical/Biblical Idumea and the West African Edo. I note the similarities between Edo monarchs and Egyptian monarchs. There appears to be some relationship of what we understand of Bible names, places, things and history with that of West African names, places, things and history. I appreciate your bringing attention to the kinship patterns we see in the Bible and the cultural link to that of Africans. I would term it Biblical Anthropology.<br /><br />I understand what this means to some Africans because it appeals to their obsessive inclination to link themselves to the Bible as a way to validate their relevance to world history and to justify their existance since they have no written history of their own, and what they have been made to think of themselves and their history as "savage," "heathen" and "pagan". Such is the affect of missionary induced colonization of the African mind with the Bible.<br /><br />Though I cannot in absolute terms exclude it, I tend to not use the Bible as a way to validate African history. We Africans have been encouraged to think we need to appeal to the master piece of western epistemology to define how we fit in it. We have totally lost our African mind for an enslaved or colonized one that I call the zapped African mind.<br /><br />Having a zapped african mind myself, I can appreciated how your research opens up how much the bible reflects many aspects of African peoplehood, history, culture and tradition. For some it begets the notion of our origins being from the biblical names, peoples, places, things and history and for others the bible being evidence of our pre biblical origins that the Jewish narrative in spite of itself put or retained in the hebraic text. ~Sidney DavisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-688820610845171516.post-36941698648211346492014-03-29T12:22:46.111-07:002014-03-29T12:22:46.111-07:00This blog rocks!!!!!!!!This blog rocks!!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com