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The Black Presence in the Bible and the Table of Nations: Genesis 10: 1-32

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I didn't know "we" were in the Bible to the extent we were! I knew about the black man carrying the cross for Jesus, but didn't know that a black man wrote almost half the New Testament! Very informative and it'll make you feel proud to be an african american!!!

Rev. Walter Arthur McCray is a lecturer and author of other books such as Gospelizers! Terrorized & Intensified, The Black Presence & The Passion: A christ-centered Historical Identity Response of a Gospelizer, How to Stick Together During Times of Tension (Black light fellowship series), and more. The "companion" volume to this book is The Black Presence in the Bible: Discovering the Black and African Indentity of Bilical Persons and Nations.

He wrote in the Preface to this 1990 book, "Little did we realize---in the midst of completing the manuscript for our first-intended volume of 'The Black Presence in the Bible'---that the Lord would impress upon our heart the need to write a second volume of this nature. In the light of hindsight, the integral place of an in-depth analysis and exposition of the Table of Nations (Genesis 10:1-32) to this overall subject is obvious."

Here are some quotations from the book:

"Thus, Genesis 10 is crucial for our study of the Black presence in the Bible. The Table of Nations provides for us an identifiable 'African Family Tree' and other genealogical, geographical, and political information by which Black people can trace the Biblical roots of ancient Black/African peoples." (Pg. 15)
"Most of our discussion in this study of the Black presence in the Bible is about Ham and his descendants, since he and his people are the central figures under investigation." (Pg. 17)
"The peoples listed in Genesis 10 are viewed from the perspective of the ancient Hebrew-Israelites. This would account for the absence of the names 'Hebrews' and 'Israel' from the list... Geographically, the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japeth are located around the land of Canaan, which land Israel came to inhabit." (Pg. 63)
"It has been our purpose to do no less or no more than the Scripture has done when it reads 'The sons of Ham...These are the sons of Ham.' (10:6, 20) On the stage of Black Biblical exegesis and exposition we have given a presentation of 'the sons of Ham.' We have sought to translate Biblical Hamitic genealogical information into the language and understanding of Black scholars of our day. Hereby, we would encourage Black Biblical expositors to do the same. We charge them to present to our hearers and readers 'the sons/descendants of Ham,' and to do so with all Scriptural fidelity, ethnic pride, passion for the truth, good conscience, repulsion of falsehood, and redemptive motivation through Christ Jesus." (Pg. 137)