Were the original Hebrews black

Scholars say that the Hebrew people were actually descendants of dissident Canaanites who left the coastal cities to settle in the Canaanite hinterland, and that centuries later they developed legendary stories that separated them from their Canaanite neighbours. Thus, the Hebrews were a West Semitic people, with dark brown skin and high noses, much like modern Sephardic Jews and Palestinians. Even the biblical story of their origins places the birthplace of Abraham in modern Iraq, where the ancestral people had dark brown skin and high noses. Either way, the early Hebrews were certainly not black.