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  2. Biblical terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    Arphaxad: "Arphaxadites, who are now called Chaldeans". Sala Heber (Eber): "from whom they originally called the Jews Hebrews". Phaleg (Peleg): He notes that he was so named "because he was born at the dispersion of the nations to their several countries; for Phaleg among the Hebrews signifies division". Joctan

  3. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, it is uncommon in English speaking countries to use "Yellow" to refer to Asian people or "Red" to refer to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This is due to historic negative associations of the terms (ex. Yellow Peril and Redskin). [22] [23] However, some Asians have tried to reclaim the word by proudly self-identifying as "Yellow".

  4. Yellow Peril - Wikipedia

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    In 1900, the anticolonial Boxer Rebellion (August 1899 – September 1901) reinforced the racist stereotypes of East Asians as a Yellow Peril to white people. The Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists (called the Boxers in the West) was an anticolonial martial arts organization who blamed the problems of China on the presence of Western ...

  5. Here's What the Black History Month Colors Are and What They Mean

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    "The yellow [or gold] refers back to the Ethiopian flag, which is meaningful to people of color because Ethiopia is virtually the only country in Africa that did not experience colonialism.

  6. List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources

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    These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.

  7. High yellow - Wikipedia

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    High yellow, occasionally simply yellow (dialect: yaller, yella), is a term used to describe a light-skinned black person . It is also used as a slang for those thought to have "yellow undertones". [1] The term was in common use in the United States at the end of the 19th century and the mid 20th century.

  8. Race and appearance of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    By the 19th century, theories which were based on the belief that Jesus was a member of the so-called "Aryan race", and in particular, theories which were based on the belief that his appearance was Nordic, were developed and later, they appealed to advocates of the new racial antisemitism, who did not want to believe that Jesus was Jewish ...

  9. List of biblical names - Wikipedia

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    The team discovered that within the King James Version Bible, a total of 3,418 distinct names were identified. Among these, 1,940 names pertain to individuals, 1,072 names refer to places, 317 names denote collective entities or nations, and 66 names are allocated to miscellaneous items such as months, rivers, or pagan deities.