out of curiosity ...

[MoreCoffee]

Are there any white people (of faith) in the bible, if so who?

 

[tango]

I don't recall Scripture mentioning skin tones although given it was mostly set in what we'd currently call the Middle East it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume most of the people in it would have been olive-skinned or darker.

The Roman Empire would probably have been largely made up of people from what we'd currently call Italy. Maybe they were paler in complexion.

 

[Andrew]

Are there any white people (of faith) in the bible, if so who?

define "white people" and also no.

 

[Manonfire63]

Race, as we Post-Modern people have been seeing it, is a social construct. The Chinese, they were, and still are, really racist. Racism may have been something learned. Christians didn't like Cowtowing, and then ended up in sin over there in China, and came back with a disease.

Someone like Apostle Paul was both Jew and Roman Citizen. Being a Roman Citizen came with certain privileges. It wasn't based on race.

 

[Manonfire63]

Interesting note:

The Cornish, the people of Brittany, and the Welsh, are some of the only people to have maintain their ethnic identity pre-Rome. This may have been due to geography. What happened to all the other pre-Roman tribes? Genocide. The Jews are another Pre-Roman Tribe that survived.

 

[Castle Church]

If we consider Greeks and Italians "white" then maybe. There could have been some Gauls or Germanic people in the Legions as well and they could have been a part of the stories in the New Testament. But to directly answer the question: not that we are aware of.

 

[Josiah]

"White" = Caucasian.

Semitic people (including the Hebrews) are Caucasian.
All native European peoples are Caucasian.

Thus, everyone mentioned in the Bible was "White."


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[BruceLeiter]

I don't recall Scripture mentioning skin tones although given it was mostly set in what we'd currently call the Middle East it doesn't seem unreasonable to assume most of the people in it would have been olive-skinned or darker.

The Roman Empire would probably have been largely made up of people from what we'd currently call Italy. Maybe they were paler in complexion.

The Bible makes no distinctions among the races, since it calls us to avoid favoritism among them and classes.