I find this anachronism, classifying people who are said to have lived thousands of years ago in terms of current PC argot more than a little absurd. Equally absurdly there are some Muslims who maintain most aggressively that Muhammad was white. In the case of the legendary Jewish bachelor, there is not a hell of a lot of evidence that he existed at all, outside of Christian sources, never mind which of the currently defined 'races' he would have fallen into had he been living in the US today or in apartheid South Africa. If, as I suspect, his life is nothing more than a legend, made up various other myths and legends of the Near East cobbled together, then it follows that you can make him any colour you want. A man for all seasons, as it were. Tahir