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The Black Jews of Africa: History, Religion, Identity

Edith Bruder

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780195333565

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333565.001.0001

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Epilogue

Epilogue

Ancient Myths and Modern Phenomena

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(p.187) Epilogue
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The Black Jews of Africa
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Edith Bruder

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195333565.003.0015

This final chapter examines the cultural, social, and political factors that could have led African religious traditions mingled with Christianity, and sometimes with Islam, to be superseded by a new Jewish cultural identity. It presents some hypotheses of the meaning and the benefits that these groups derive from their affiliation with Judaism.

Keywords:   Africans, Jews, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, religious traditions, cultural identity

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