According to biblical mythology, a beautiful Afrikan woman named the Queen of Sheba journey's to judaica because she's heard about, and wants to see this brilliant man named King Solomon, hoping he could cure her, because according to legend she had feet like a calf's hove.
NOTE: notice how the actual name of this "queen" of Sheba is never mentioned.
Sadly...people think sheba's her actual name LOL!! The name "sheba" (which is the name of the land by the way), literally means "sabien", which translates into "ethiopian"
Well anyway, according to the story, once Solomon laid eyes on her, he falls in love and impregnates her. She returns back to Ethiopia and has a baby by the name of "Menelik".
Now since he's the son of Solomon, his lineage/offspring is the alleged beginning of the falasha or beta jews starting in Ethiopia.
Rule #1: HISTORICALLY none of that sh*t ever happened. There's NO SUCH THING as a "historical israelite/jew/hebrew".
Rule #2: they ONLY exist within the pages of judeo-christian literature.
Ethiopia was NEVER a judeo-christian country until the middle of the 19th century, when christian missionaries went over there and FORCED their dyophysitic chrisitian ideology on them. This is also a time when there was a HUGE influx of european imperial powers that sent their missionaries into Afrika, and forced/indoctrinated them with biblical teachings.
So how exactly did Ethiopians became the "beta/falasha jews"?
Here's how:
The israelite universal alliance of paris france sent a scholar by the name of Joseph Halevi into Ethiopia in 1867, for the SOLE purpose of connecting with the beta jews.
But when he got there he found christians instead of practicing jews LOL!!
So he went to the Ethiopian elders to inquire about the falasha jews, and they had NO IDEA of what he was talkin' about. So he with the financial backing of the universal alliance of paris, began basically "creating" this beta jew faction in ethiopia.
Halevi thoroughly documents ALL of this in his memoirs!
In 1900 this same group (israelite universal alliance), sent a turkish rabbi by the name of Naheem Nahum, to investigate how well Halevi's efforts were in changing the culture from that of christianity to judaism.
His reports indicated that Halevi's efforts weren't very effective at all. So in 1913 they sent another guy by the name of Josh Falevic to correct this.
He stayed in Ethiopia doing this from 1913-55 (until his death).
Now here's where I need y'all to think family:
If our people in Ethiopia at that time, i.e. these "falashas" or "beta israel jews", were already jews in practice, then they would've ALREADY had their own synagogues and jewish teachings when these judeo-christian white folks arrived!
They wouldn't have saw a NEED to force upon them the so called "jewish" customs/teachings from the Old Testament, if they were already jews!
This forced tradition on our people in Ethiopia, is HOW this "black hebrew/israelite" nonsense came into our cognitive awareness!
I guarantee you that you won't EVER find ANY HISTORICAL EVIDENCE of ANY group of Afrikan/black people that ever called themselves "hebrews", "israelites", or "jews, PRIOR TO our contact with white folks and their judeo-christian literature!
Nor will you ever find any of our ancestors that ever called themselves by these terms in ANY of their "original language(s)" either!
That's how you know that the old: "we're (black folks) the original jews/hebrews/israelites" claim is total horse sh*t!
Religious mythology/tradition/beliefs won't ever give you this kinda information.
Only the researching of what HISTORY dictates will..
Posted By: DAVID JOHNSON
Tuesday, December 24th 2013 at 10:23PM
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