Books : Black Athena Revisited
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by: Mary R. Lefkowitz
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 938
EAN: 9780807845554
ISBN: 0807845558
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: April 29, 1996
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: March 13, 1996
Sales Rank: 867965
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians?
Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black?
Did the ancient Greeks borrow religion, science, and philosophy from the Egyptians and Phoenicians?
Have scholars ignored the Afroasiatic roots of Western civilization as a result of racism and anti-Semitism?
In this collection of twenty essays, leading scholars in a broad range of disciplines confront the claims made by Martin Bernal in Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization. In that work, Bernal proposed a radical reinterpretation of the roots of classical civilization, contending that ancient Greek culture derived from Egypt and Phoenicia and that European scholars have been biased against the notion of Egyptian and Phoenician influence on Western civilization. The contributors to this volume argue that Bernal's claims are exaggerated and in many cases unjustified.
Topics covered include race and physical anthropology; the question of an Egyptian invasion of Greece; the origins of Greek language, philosophy, and science; and racism and anti-Semitism in classical scholarship. In the conclusion to the volume, the editors propose an entirely new scholarly framework for understanding the relationship between the cultures of the ancient Near East and Greece and the origins of Western civilization.
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Rating:  - You can't deny the truth
Why do whites want to separate Egypt from Africa so bad. Egypt is in Africa and the ancient Egyptians were African just as the Greeks and Romans are Europeans. It is a fact. I feel sorry for those of you who deny the truth. Although you perpetuate a legacy of falsified European history, I am satisfied because, "the truth is like lightening with its errand done." Centuries from now (or even sooner) historians will give Africa the credit that it is due. You can't erase facts or the past.
Rating:  - Both sides are equally ignorant
Greek civilization was much influenced by Egyptian civilization, this cannot be doubted, especially if one refers to ancient texts. What is absurd about both accounts and the militants forging their views, is the notion that Egyptian civilization was black or that African=Black. In fact, the label African was first used to refer to Phoenicians, and would never have been used to refer to the Black sub-saharan peoples that were known as Zanj, Sudanese or Aethiopian. When black contributors claim that ... Read More
Rating:  - A most necessary read
I came to this issue as a teacher of ancient philosophy, and a concern to understand the claims of afrocentrists, as well as Bernal, that the ancient Greek philosophers took some significant portion of their thought from the Egyptians, in particular the Egyptian priests. What I have read of these claims has not been, in my view, impressive. (The best that Bernal can offer, given that no Egyptian texts bear any resemblance to Greek philosophy, is that the popular religion of Egypt "must" have been ... Read More
Rating: - what is it about Black Athena Vol. 1 & 2 that has scared soo many?
Funny how 19th. C. Historical rethoric is not questioned. Think about it?
Most 19th. C historians where of Germanic and otherwise Aryan stock, slavery was still in full boogie business. The great Egyptian pyramids had been re discovered. How could a generation of slave owners make peace with the fact that the humans theybought and sold were African as were the very people who had founded the Egyptian dynasties? They could not.
Martin Bernal is a Jewish scholar who after over twenty ... Read More
Rating: - A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of One Dimensional Whiteness
"In pursuing a PhD on Minoan archaeology, it became necessary to spend several years in Greece. Many of the scholars I encountered there were not only ignorant of the contributions of the Near East to the development of Greek civilization, they were uninterested." Dr. L. Hitchcock, Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Classics and Education:
Education was once conceived almost exclusively as the cultivation of values and tastes that distinguished the learned from ... Read More
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