Blacks in the Bible: Black Men and Women in Scripture: The Original Roots of Men and Women of Color in Scripture (The Blacks in the Bible Legacy Series ... Works of Blacks in the Bible Book 2) by James H. Warden Jr

Author:James H. Warden Jr. [Warden Jr., James H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-01-31T22:00:00+00:00

BLACK WOMEN IN JESUS CHRIST’S LINEAGE HAD PECULIAR SEXUAL HISTORIES

While the virgin Mary’s complexion is undisclosed, it is interesting that the three other women listed in the “who begat who” lineage of Jesus Christ were black women having Ham in their lineage starting with Rahab/Rachab the harlot of the Canaanite city of Jericho. Next there was Ruth the virtuous Moabitess that was a descendant of Lot’s incest with his half-black daughter who named their child Moab. Ruth was a new convert from paganism, when her mother-in-law, Naomi, issued her a compromising instruction to bathe and oil herself and then put on her most attractive dress. Then Ruth was to hide herself until Naomi’s wealthy kinsmen had finished his meal and drinks and had laid down for the night (Ruth 1:16, 3:3-4). What this deceitful mother-in-law meant for evil God turn it to Ruth’s good. Naomi, Ruth’s mother-in-law, instructed her to go to this wealthy old man’s bed and “uncover his feet and lay down, and he will tell thee what thou shalt do”. The Old Testament term of covering one’s feet meant the person was engaging the midsection of their body to have a bowel movement (1 Sam 24:3, Judges 3:24). In Isaiah, angels with six wings flew around God’s throne “with two wings they covered their faces and two wings they covered their feet [their groin area according to many scholars] and with two do they fly” (Isa 6:2). The Hebrew word “margeloth” was used in Ruth regarding her uncovering this rich man’s feet as well as in Daniel 10:6 which states “his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass….”73 The use of the word “feet” here is inclusive of the legs and thighs as inferred in this passage. Although Ruth was not a virgin, she was a virtuous woman and knew exactly what her mother-in-law was implying that Boaz may ask of her. Ruth was not naïve but humbly replied to her mother-in-law “All that thou sayest me unto me I will do” (Ruth 3:5). Therefore, when Boaz woke in the middle of the night and found this beautiful and fragrantly anointed woman laying beneath his waist, he was startled and asked her who she was and she replied, “I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread thy skirt [that she had hiested up to uncover him] over thy handmaid for thou are a near kinsmen”. Boaz was a virtuous man and did not take advantage of this young beautiful woman that had appeared before him in his bedroom in the night to appeal for a favor. Boaz commended Ruth on her reputation for virtue as well as not chasing after young men and let her spend the night but did not touch her and both concealed this rather scandalous meeting and they later married (Ruth 3:10-14, 4:13). At their wedding, the elders of Israel mentioned Ruth the Moabitess in the favorable context as that of Tamar the Canaanite and blessed the womb of this Moabitess. At

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