Was bathsheba black

Answer 1

No one knows if Bathsheba was black or not. We can break down the name to Bath and Sheba. Bath means "Daughter of", and Sheba means Yemen, or South Arabia. The problem is that we do not know the makeup of the people in that region in 1000 b.c. They were across the straights from Ethiopia where the people are black. The people in that region today are not black but are dark. So I will guess she was probably dark skinned but not black.

I disagree with the above answer....She was not from Yemen or South Arabia, or any African country. "Bathsheba" was actually translated from "Bat-Shua" (1 Chronicles 3:5) ....which means "daughter of the oath"...not "Daughter of Sheba" like the popular Queen who visited Solomon.

Encyclopedia excerpt: "Bathsheba was a daughter of Eliam, one of David's "thirty" (2 Sam. 23:34; cf 1 Chr. 3:5); Eliam was also the son of Ahitophel, one of David's chief advisors. Ahitophel was from Giloh (Josh. 15:51;cf 2 Sam. 15:12), a city of Judah, and thus Bathsheba was from David's own tribe and the granddaughter of one of David's closest advisors (2 Sam.15:12)."

Answer 2

It's like asking if the Jews were black or dark skinned (what's the difference?). The Middle East today consists of brown-skinned and light brown-skinned people. But was this the case in the ancient world? Probably not. Consider that the Philistines (a Hamitic or black group) came from Crete, joined the battle of Troy as mercenaries and afterwards made their way into Canaan and became the biggest Canaanite tribe, should we still not consider them to be black? Would Bathsheba be black or brown-skinned? The answer is a resounding YES!

Answer 3

yes...

Answer 4

yessssss!!! LOL