Rastafarian Children Of Solomon The Legacy Of The Kebra Nagast And The Path To Peace And Understanding Gerald Hausman by Gerald Hausman 9781591438304, 1591438306 instant download after payment.

This book is about people. A particular group of people who are as much misunderstood now as they were in the 1930s when they appeared on the scene with surprising vehemence, urging social and spiritual change in an indifferent and antithetical world. Perhaps it began with the St. Ann revolutionary Marcus Garvey who stated clearly what the Bible had already said: “Look to Africa, when a black King shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is near.” He might very well have said that the king was Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia and that he was not only a king but a deity, descended from the House of David.

Singularly, the most important thing was that this king would bring forth a new day on earth. That his ancestral lineage included Jesus of Nazareth was perhaps less important than his direct familial connection to King Solomon, author of Ecclesiastes and considered by Rastafarians to be the wisest man who ever lived.

The children of Solomon are the children of Africans. And so it is said, as well, that “God come black.” Haile Selassie was, according to Rastafarians we know, a black man and they ask: “Was not Jesus also black? And all of the Biblical Fathers of the Old Testament?”