Brit-Am Research Sources (29 December 2013, 2013, Tevet 26, 5774)
Contents:
1. Moses Black Wife
2. An Early Source Records Cimmerians Along the North Sea Coast. THE ORPHIC ARGONAUTICA
3. Early Cimmerians Sources. The Cimmerian Problem Re-Examined: the Evidence of the Classical Sources
by Marek Jan Olbrycht, 1996, Collectanea Celto-Asiatica Cracoviensia
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1. Moses Black Wife
http://rchaimqoton.blogspot.co.il/2007/07/moses-black-wife.html
Extracts:
Rabbi Chizkiyah ben Manoach explains[30] that Miriam assumed that Moses separated from Zipporah because she was a Cushite[31]; accordingly, Miriam complained why Moses decided to separate from her at that time, he should have not married her in the first place. Rabbi Yaakov ben Asher (1270-1340) understands[32] that Miriam complained that Moses separated from his wife because as a Cushite she was not beautiful. He further explains, that in reality, Moses was so humble and unassuming that a physical blemish such as a lack of beauty would not matter to him. ....
Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid (1150-1217) explains[35] that Miriam complained about Moses that he should not have merely separated from Zipporah, rather he should have divorced her because she was a Cushite and was thus from tainted lineage. Similarly, Rabbi Elazar Rokeach also explains[36] that Miriam was complaining about the fact that Moses merely separated from his wife, but he did not divorce her. He explains that since Moses was the King of the Jewish Nation[37], he should have taken a wife from within the Jewish people, not from a foreign nation. Furthermore, in addition to the fact that Moses married Zipporah before the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai, he remarried her after the Sinaitic Revelation, while instead he should have not remarried her[38]; this accounts for the double usage of the expression "the Cushite wife whom he married" and "for he married a Cushite wife". The Rokeach explains that Moses was justified in not divorcing Zipporah and merely separating from her because Moses owed a debt of gratitude to Jethro, who took Moses into his family and sustained him while Moses was poor after he fled Egypt. Because of this debt of gratitude to Jethro, Moses chose to remain married to his daughter, Zipporah. ...
cf.
The Black Woman
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/race/woman.html
Racial Prejudices is Forbidden by the Bible!
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2. An Early Source Records Cimmerians Along the North Sea Coast
THE ORPHIC ARGONAUTICA
Pseudo-Orpheus
4th c. CE or later
translated by Jason Colavito (2011
http://www.argonauts-book.com/orphic-argonautica.html
B-A Note: Jason and the argo sail along northern reaches of the Black Sea, via a river they sail north tot he the Cronian or Dead Sea apparently meaning the Baltic
From here, the Argo made advances by leaps and jumps through the narrow strait, and fell into the Ocean, which the Hyperborean men call the Cronian Sea or the Dead Sea. After six days they then come to the Cimmerians. The Cimmerians were in the Ocean or along the coast somewhere in Europe to the west of the Alps.
Pulling the swift ship, we then came to the Cimmerians, who are without the splendid light of the sun. For the Rhipaean mountains and the Calpius block the rising sun and shut out brightness. Phlegra overshadows the noontime sun, and the sharp-peaked Alps block the evening light. So the Cimmerians are always in darkness. When we once again went forth, pushing the ship with our feet, we came to a rough headland and a river devoid of wind, where a gushing river rushed forth from a deep whirlpool, gold-bearing Acheron, through a cold region, rolling water of glittering silver. A black marsh kept it back, and the green trees next to the river's shores made a loud noise, always weighed down night and day with fruit. Next to this low pasture was found Hermioneia, with defensive walls running around well-built villages. In this there lived the most just tribe of men, for whom transport by a single ship alone suffices after death: for their souls cross over the Acheron from the city by ship immediately. Near this are cities, unconquered gates to Hades, and the land of phantoms.
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3. Early Cimmerians Sources.
The Cimmerian Problem Re-Examined: the Evidence of the Classical Sources
by Marek Jan Olbrycht, 1996, Collectanea Celto-Asiatica Cracoviensia
https://www.academia.edu/1509846/The_Cimmerian_Problem_Re-Examined_the_Evidence_of_the_Classical_Sources
Hecateus of Abdera (ca. 350-300 BCE) mentions a Cimmerian city amongst the Hyperboreans in the north.
Posidonus in Strabo (7.4.3) maintains that the Cimmerian Bosporus in the region of Lake Maotis was named after the Cimbri for the Greeks called the Cimbri Cimmerians.
town of Cimmeris on the Taman Peninsula in 300s BCE
Euphoris of Cumae (ca. 300s BCE quoted by Strabo) placed Cimmerians in Avernis area near Cumae of southern Italy but says they had been exterminated by a certain king. They had lived in caves and caverns under thr ground and never viewed the sun.
Cerberians
Strabo 14.1.40 and 1.3.21 Madyes a Cimmerian
Strabo 1.3.21 Madyes a Cimmerian and also a Scythian
Gimirraia (Cimmerians) name given to Saka in Achaemenid times.