The clan of Zadok, as it waited for its culminating drive,to the west, contained only seven hundred persons, for the great Hebrew tribes had not yet been formed.

The African heritage dates to the original biblical Hebrew tribes in Egypt before the birth of Moses and the exodus and dispersion of Hebrews.

The lost Hebrew tribe of Bnei Menashe had been discovered - after two and a half millennia - in northeastern India.

The Ancient Hebrew tribes considered it to be the duty of the individual and family to avenge evil in God's name.

They were common to the Hebrew tribes, the Egyptians, and in Asian cultures as well.

They had varied readings of the Scriptures, especially feeling an affinity to the wandering Hebrew tribes.

Yet even in his hour of triumph over the lesser gods of the Hebrew tribes, Yahweh remained only the god of those Hebrews.

The various groups share similar ideologies about blacks being the "true Jews" and members of lost Hebrew tribes and about whites being devils.

Indeed, injunctions against murder or perjury were probably enforced by Hebrew tribes long before Sinai and are certainly found in other ancient texts besides the Bible.

And as it was, after a fashion, with the Hebrew tribes to this day.