From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews [Paperback]

Rudolph R. Windsor (Author, Preface), El Hagahn (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1988

This carefully reserched book is a significant addition to this vital foeld of knowledge. It sets forth, in fascinating detail, the history, from earliset recorded times, of the black races of the Middle East and Africa.

Product Details

• Paperback: 151 pages
• Publisher: Windsor Golden Series; Rep Sub edition (April 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0962088110
• ISBN-13: 978-0962088117
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #2 in Books > History > Africa > Ethiopia

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18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking Insights on an Old Story, September 18, 2008

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jb sailer (Floida) - See all my reviews

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From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews

This book is well written and well worth reading, or better yet worth studying. I read this book armed with my computer, Bible software,a copy of "the Complete Works of the Biblical Historian Flavius Josephus", Mircrosoft Encarta, and Wikipedia, etc. it will help to have each one of them, because it is so important to always check the author's notes and references in the back of the book as you read. I kept a bookmarker for the note section, too. I concluded that the author was very thorough in his research of the facts he presented in his book, in which I can appreciate. I became so engrossed in his work that I am fully committed to reading it again, and this time adding some of the other authors he referred to in the back of his book. If you like to read about history,this would be a real mind opening book to read or study.

Betty Chandler

70 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A horrible piece of pseudo-scholarship, June 24, 2000

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Claressa Lucas (Stone Mountain, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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I was initially overjoyed to discover a treatise which purported to be a comprehensive study of the history of the black races with a focus on Hebrews/Judaism in sub-Saharan Africa. As any serious scholar can agree, there is an incredible dearth of information on this subject. Unfortunately, this book DOES NOT fill the void. For instance, the first footnote in reference to the author's claim that the Mesopotamian cradle of civilization (the biblical garden of Eden) was populated by blacks states "this point will be proven later". It only gets worse. He dredges up that old biblical chestnut of the origin of the races according to the migrations of Noah's sons after the Deluge. A better source for the great diaspora of humans from their African cradle could be found in any Cavalli-Sforza volume. Windsor, here, only quotes from the King James Bible with no mention of earlier versions which, are now readily available to the English-speaker in numerous releases of the Dead Sea scrolls. There is little science, scholarship or, critical analysis. The bibliography is paltry. Windsor even misquotes Herodotus and Josephus. I most emphatically DO NOT recommend this book for either the serious scholar or the hobbyist.

29 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars enlightening, October 16, 1999

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O. B. Makhubela (South Africa) - See all my reviews
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As an African in South Africa, I was most delighted to trace the history of African civilizations and its origins. Indeed the book will appeal to all races and is most relevant to all races: it attempts to expalin the origin of various races and religions that exist today and their effect on the world today. I have always suspected that the reason(s) for the persistent hardship(s) faced by Blacks all over the world has to do with something we did in the past. Indeed the author does raise this issue and gives excellent responses to it.