Biblical terminology for race
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Biblical terminology for race
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Since early modern times, a number of biblical ethnonyms from the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 have been used as a basis for classifying human racial and national identities. The connection between Genesis 10 and contemporary ethnic groups began during classical antiquity, when authors such as Josephus, Hippolytus and Jerome analyzed the biblical list. The early modern equation of the biblical Semites, Hamites and Japhetites with "racial" phenotypes was coined at the Göttingen school of histor
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Terms for races in the Bible
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_terminology_for_race
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2024-04-16T00:34:22Z
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