Eye-opener
This book should be regarded as a classic in Biblical scholarship. Not only does it clarify and revolutionize our understanding of the prevalence of black African nations in the Old Testament, and of the high esteem in which those black African nations were held, but it also reveals how the enslavement of modern Africans affected the translation of the Old Testament into English. The author makes clear how deliberately the translators managed to avoid making any connection between the ancient black nations mentioned so profusely in the Old Testament and the modern black human beings reduced to subhuman conditions for the economic benefit of the English people. He proves that the translators knew that the inhabitants of those esteemed ancient nations and of modern Africa were the same black people, and that they knew, therefore, that the Biblical arguments used to justify slavery and the slave trade were fraudulent. This book not only places the Old Testament in its proper historical and geographical framework, but also does a similar service regarding the King James Version and other modern translations.
"The Black Man in the Old Testament and Its World" is well written. There are helpful review questions and notes at the end of each chapter and a bibliography at the end of the book. The one major shortcoming is the inadequacy of its index.
