The Curse of Ham : : Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / / David M. Goldenberg.

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• VerfasserIn: Goldenberg, David M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; 33
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 2 tables.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I. Images of Blacks
• ONE. Biblical Israel: The Land of Kush
• TWO. Biblical Israel: The People of Kush
• THREE. Postbiblical Israel: Black Africa
• FOUR. Postbiblical Israel: Black Africans
• Part Two. The Color of Skin
• FIVE. The Color of Women
• SIX. The Color of Health
• SEVEN. The Colors of Mankind
• EIGHT. The Colored Meaning of Kushite in Postbiblical Literature
• Part Three. History
• NINE. Evidence for Black Slaves in Israel
• Part Four. At The Crossroads of History and Exegesis
• TEN. Was Ham Black?
• ELEVEN “Ham Sinned and Canaan was Cursed?!”
• TWELVE. The Curse of Ham
• THIRTEEN. The Curse of Cain
• FOURTEEN. The New World Order: Humanity by Physiognomy
• Conclusion. Jewish Views of Black Africans and the Development of Anti-Black Sentiment in Western Thought
• APPENDIX I. When is a Kushite not a Kushite? Cases of Mistaken Identity
• APPENDIX II. Kush/Ethiopia and India
• NOTES
• Glossary of Sources and Terms
• Subject Index
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Index of Modern Scholars