 In Canticles ( 1 : 5 ) , the tents of the Qedarites are described as black : " Black I am , but beautiful , ye daughters of Jerusalem / As tents of Qedar , as tentcloth of Salam black . " Their tents are said to be made of black goat hair . A tribe of Salam was located just south of the Nabateans in Madain Salih , and Knauf proposed that the Qedarites mentioned in this Masoretic text were in fact Nabataeans and played a crucial role in the spice trade in the 3rd century BCE . 
 In Canticles ( 1 : 5 ) , the tents of the Qedarites are described as black : " Black I am , but beautiful , ye daughters of Jerusalem / As tents of Qedar , as tentcloth of Salam black . " Their tents are said to be made of black goat hair . A tribe of Salam was located just south of the Nabateans in Madain Salih , and Knauf proposed that the Qedarites mentioned in this Masoretic text <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> in fact Nabataeans and played a crucial role in the spice trade in the 3rd century BCE . 
In Canticles ( 1 : 5 ) , da tents of the Qedarites are described as black : " Black I am , but beautiful , ye daughters of Jerusalem / As tents of Qedar , as tentcloth of Salam black . " Their tents r said to b made of black goat hair . A tribe of Salam was located just south of the Nabateans in Madain Salih , and Knauf proposed that tdaQedarites mentioned in dis Masoretic txt was in fact Nabataeans and played a crucial role in the spice trade in the 3rd century BCE .