Black Jesus and the Rastafari by Jesus in Books published on 2018-02-11T01:52:59Z In Jeremiah Jesus says "I am black". Elsewhere in the KJV He's called JAH. Discover the biblical roots of the Rastafari in this episode of Jesus in Books. Reviewed is Dread Jesus by William David Spencer. Genre Religion & Spirituality Comment by Jesus in Books @jah-bread-994473975: The excerpt I'm referring to is on page 13 of Dread Jesus by William David Spencer. 2018-02-28T01:34:29Z Comment by Jesus in Books @jah-bread-994473975: So again, you're correct on all counts. I could have explained it better though or read an excerpt directly from the book. Thanks for your insight! 2018-02-28T01:27:53Z Comment by Jesus in Books @jah-bread-994473975: The book adds that the preachers, being untrained in Hebrew, were unaware that JAH is a partial transliteration of the Tetragrammaton, the first two consonants in the common name of the Lord, normally translated as 'the LORD'. 2018-02-28T01:26:28Z Comment by Jesus in Books @jah-bread-994473975: What the book "Dread Jesus" says is that Ethiopianist preachers concluded, reasonably, that JAH in Psalm 68:4 must be the true name of God, and therefore a true follower would extol God by that name. 2018-02-28T01:22:37Z Comment by Jesus in Books @jah-bread-994473975: Yes, I agree with you. I could have been a lot clearer in my podcast. Sorry for any confusion. 2018-02-28T01:19:42Z Comment by Jah Bread The most notable error in this talk is the often made error that Jah is somehow a "Rastafarian" name of God when it is simply an anglicised form of the name given to Israel through Moses. It appears already in the King James Bible four hundred years before the birth of Ras Tafari Makonnen. 2018-02-27T12:39:48Z
