The curse of Ham race and slavery in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam /

The curse of Ham [electronic resource] : race and slavery in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / David M. Goldenberg.

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How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this groundbreaking book, David Goldenberg seeks to discover how dark-skinned peoples, especially black Africans...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Goldenberg, David M., 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Series:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
Subjects:
Ham > (Biblical figure)
Bible. > Genesis, IX, 18-25 > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Black people in the Bible.
Black people > Public opinion > History > To 1500.
Jews > Attitudes > History > To 1500.
Christians > Attitudes > History > To 1500.
Muslims > Attitudes > History > To 1500.
Slavery > Justification > History.
Black race > Color.
Blacks in the Bible.
Blacks > Public opinion.
Christians > Attitudes.
Jews > Attitudes.
Muslims > Attitudes.
Slavery > Justification.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • I: Images of blacks
  • 1. Biblical Israel: the land of Kush
  • 2. Biblical Israel: the people of Kush
  • 3. Postbiblical Israel: black Africa
  • 4. Postbiblical Israel: black Africans
  • II: The color of skin
  • 5. The color of women
  • 6. The color of health
  • 7. The colors of mankind
  • 8. The colored meaning of Kushite in postbiblical literature
  • III: History
  • 9. Evidence for black slaves in Israel
  • IV: At the crossroads of history and exegesis
  • 10. Was Ham back?
  • 11. "Ham sinned and Canaan was cursed?"
  • 12. The curse of Ham
  • 13. The curse of Cain
  • 14. The new world of order: humanity by physiognomy
  • Jewish views of black Africans and the development of anti-black sentiment in western thought
  • When is a Kushite not a Kushite? Cases of mistake identity
  • Kush/Ethiopia and India.

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