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'''Martin Bernal''' (1937-2013) was a British American scholar.

==Biography==

Martin Gardiner Bernal was born on March 10, 1937, in [[London, England]] to John Desmond Bernal, a prominent British scientist and radical political
activist, and Margaret Gardiner, a writer. 

Bernal graduated from King’s College, Cambridge, England in 1957, earned a diploma of Chinese language from Peking University in 1960 and did
graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963 and Harvard in 1964. He received his PhD in Oriental studies from the University of Cambridge in 1966 and remained there as a fellow until he was recruited by Cornell University, where he taught Chinese political history at Cornell from 1972 until 2001.

His controversial series of books on "Black Athena" drew attention on the Egyptian and Semitic (or Phoenician) roots of ancient Greek civilization. 

Bernal died on June 9, 2013 in [[Cambridge, England]].

==Works on Second Temple Judaism==

====Books====

*[[Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization (1987 Bernal), book]]

*[[Black Athena 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence (1991 Bernal), book]]

*[[Black Athena 3: The Linguistic Evidence (1991 Bernal), book]]

==External links==

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Bernal Wikipedia]


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