“An Ancient African Jew and the Whitewashing of Christian Origins”
Award-winning senior lecturer Dr Gifford Rhamie will use his research to explore how cultural studies aids in interrogating and displacing Eurocentrism and Anti-blackness in the study of Afroasiatic antiquity.
Dr Rhamie will combine both disciplines to demonstrate how Christianity formally began as a state religion in Africa — early 4th century — before its rise in Europe. This can be traced back to the work of a 1st century nonrabbinic African Jew, who himself was subsequently effaced from Christian history and scholarship. As such, whiteness as an ideology has variously absorbed Jewishness when convenient, in an effort to distance itself from its African history. This obfuscation will be removed as we discover that, indeed, Christianity is not a white man’s religion.
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