THE CUSHITE HEBREW:  
WHO ARE THEY AND WERE DO THEY COME FROM

 

BY ZACHARIAH SHAUL GREMILLION Talmidim of the Israelite Torah Covenant Community

Who are those people who call themselves Cushite Hebrews? Isn’t that a contradiction?  How can an individual call themselves Cushites and Hebrews?  

The answer is quite simple from the true and proper analysis of what a Cushite and Hebrew is how do they continue to exist in the present day and time.  First, Cush (Kush or Kish) is descendant of  the prophet Noah through his father Ham (Cham) according to Genesis 10:8.  Cush is one of the fathers of the civilizations of the fertile crescent of Mesopotamia and also of the civilizations of northeast Africa.

  Basically, Cush and his family populated the areas known as Sumer, Elam, Akkad, and  Babylon. Today these civilizations stand  as ruble and mere remnants of the ancient past.  The Mesopotamian area thrived in the arenas of art, science, mathematics, medicine, and spirituality.  The Patriarch Abraham and his father Terah (descendants of Shem and Eber) lived within the bounds of this great civilization and were successful business men and administrators in the government of the time before their great migration (Terah died in Haran before reaching Canaan).

Despite the bias in modern biblical scholarship and geography many places in Africa and Asia still use the name Cush and its variations.  For example, Hindu Kush which is a mountain range in NE Afghanistan .  It extends west from the Himalayas. This region was and is inhabited by dark skinned people.  However, the current inhabitants of the region are mostly mixed with Indo-Aryan/European migrants, but archeological studies show that Afro Hamitic/Cushitic people inhabited the area (Van Sertima, African Presence in Early Asia).

  The evidence also shows that Africoid people were the progenitors of the Asiatic civilization i.e. India, Iran, Iraq, and China.  Present day Nubia and Ethiopia was known as Kush by the writers and historians of ancient times.  Any Bible dictionary, history book, or ancient map will identify this area as Cush.  The Greeks, Romans, and Persian called that region of  Northeast Africa Cush (Cush and Kush are the same places and persons).  This is evidence that the inhabitants of  Cush (Ethiopia) acknowledged themselves as descendants of Kush or someone of the Cushite family system.  We will not even get into the highly advanced civilizations that they built.  

Ethiopia is a Greek word that they used to identify the Africans on that particular continent. It does not reflect the real name of the people in that area.  The word means Burnt or black faces ( I assure you that none of them were burnt, but naturally brown, dark brown or olive color).

This term became very popular, and when the word Kush appears in the Torah of Moshe it was mistranslated as Ethiopia all through out the text by Euro-gentile translators.  His Imperial Majesty Haile
Selassie of  Ethiopia traced his lineage not only to King Solomon son of King David, but to a long line of Kushite ruler all the way back to Adamah (Adam).  It does not matter how much scholars try to say that the civilizations called Kish, Kush, Cush in Africa and Asia are not related the archeological evidence is coming forth along with  scriptural evidence.

The Hebrews are descents of  Shem through Abraham whom YHWH made a special and sacred covenant (the promise of a great nation and a right to the land of Canaan in return of his faithfulness and obedience) meant to last for all times.  Without going into great detail at this time the name probably came from another family member name Eber ( thus the Word Hebrew).  It is an actual fact that since the time of Abraham to present day the  Hebrew Israelites from the family of Jacob (Shemites) always dwelt in the all encompassing civilization of  Hamites, Canaanites, Cushites.  This is just a list of the relation Israelite Community had with the House of  Cush :

1.  Abraham lived in a Hamitic/Cushite civilization called the Ur of the Chaldees  a great Sumerian city.

2.  Abraham (by divine authority) moved into Canaan a Hamitic empire ruled by Canaanites descendants of  
    Ham.

3. Abraham moved into Egypt when famine hit Canaan.

4. Jacob and his sons and daughters also suffering from famine went to Egypt .

5. Hebrews lived in Egypt for 400 years under Egyptian culture and service until liberated by Moshe.

6. Moshe married an Ethiopian woman.

7.  Cushite and Hebrews mixed seed in many periods thus the existence of  Lemba and Falasha communities In Africa that retain their Hebrew cultures. Not converted by Jewish European communities.

8. Many of the Hebraic cultures retained and practiced by West Africans some of which came to the United States through the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.  Many Africans in that region are families of Hamities, Hebrews, and people who migrated there to escape Greco-Roman oppression.  This a period in history  Not shared by the masses of academia.

In America, Dr. Shalomim HaLevi and the Yisraelite Torah Covenant Community(Ha’ Yisrayli Brith Yahad) are reestablishing the families of Cushite Hebrews in the Diaspora.  The Cushites and Hebrews families merged in the past and continues to this day a “divine” Anointed family.


               Zachariah Shaul Gremillion,
              Talmidim of the Ha’ Yisrayli Torah Brith Yahad                     
                                                                                         

This is a brief essay and is not our entire list of proof and evidence to prove our case.  Thank you