The Arabs call Esau “el Ais” or Az. meaning the goat. If Esau had red hair that is why.
The tribes of Anaza bin Wa’il adn Maza bin Wa’il were his descendants in Arabian tradition.

The Arabs call Esau el Ais or Az. If Esau had red hair that is why.

The word Adam or Udma means black mud in the semitic languages such as Arabic. Muslim comentators and Arab documents say Adam was called black because he was molded from the black earth. I think the quran is one of them.

As for near death experiences and Jesus – anything’s possible but the Author of The Autobiography of a Yogi said he was a darker skinned man than Westerners would like to believe.

Now here is something for an israeli Rabbi of the first century.
‘Shem was especially blessed black and beautiful
Ham was blessed black like the raven, and
Yapheth was blessed white all over.’
from Pirqe de Rabbi Eli`ezer, pereq 24″ 1st to 2nd c. A.D. Israel

2nd century B.C. Tacitus – “ Many assure us that the Jews are descended from those Ethiopians who were driven by fear and hatred to emigrate from their home country when Cepheus was king There are some who say that a motley collection of landless Assyrians occupied a part of Egypt, and then built cities of their own, inhabiting the lands of the Hebrews and the nearer parts of Syria. Others again find a famous ancestry for the Jews in the Solymi who are mentioned with respect in the epics of Homer: this tribe is supposed have founded Jerusalem and named it after themselves. (Habbaniyya)

16th century A.D. Ludovico Bartema on the Jews of Arabia remaining in Khaibar the last capital of Judaism in North Arabia: The Jews of Kaibar in the hejaz a capital of Judaism in Arabia -the remnant of the Banu Nadzir, Nazir or Nazirenes belonging to the Hadal (Hudayl or Hudha’il) of ancient Arabia who fled early Muslim Arabian aggression. Bartema stated “in the space of eyght days we came to a mountayne which conteyneth in circuite ten ot twelve myles. This is inhabited with jewes, to the number of 5 thousande or thereabout.. They are very little stature, as of the height of five or sixe spannes, and some much lesse. They have small voices like women, and (are) of blacke colour, yet some blacker than others. They feed of none other meate than goat fleshes. They are circumcised and deny not themselves to be Jewes. If by chaunce, any Mahumetan come into their handes, they flay him alyve.” Cited by Richard Burton in Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Mecca published

Where can I purchase a copy of Professor Sand’s excellent tome?