Black and Slave : : The Origins and History of the Curse of Ham / / David M. Goldenberg.

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• VerfasserIn: Goldenberg, David M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 360 p.)

Studies of the Curse of Ham, the belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, confuse and conflate two separate origins stories (etiologies), one of black skin and the other of black slavery. This work unravels the etiologies and shows how the Curse, an etiology of black slavery,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter One. Black and/or Slave: Confusion, Conflation, Chaos
• Chapter Two. Skin Color Etiologies
• Chapter Three. The Origin of Black Skin in Noah’s Ark
• Chapter Four. The Origin of Black Skin in Noah’s Tent
• Chapter Five. The Beginnings of the Curse of Ham
• Chapter Six. The Dual Curse of Slavery and Black Skin
• Chapter Seven. The Curse of Ham Migrates to the West
• Chapter Eight. The Dual Curse in Europe
• Chapter Nine. The Curse of Ham in America
• Chapter Ten. The Beginnings of Chaos
• Chapter Eleven. Which People Were Cursed with Black Skin?
• Chapter Twelve. The Meaning of Blackness and the Curse of Ham
• Chapter Thirteen. Conclusions
• Appendices
• Appendix I. The Curse of Ham in Europe, 18th–19th Centuries
• Appendix II. The Curse of Ham in America, 18th-20th Centuries
• Appendix III. The Curse of Cain: 17th–19th Centuries
• Excursus
• Excursus I. Did Ham Have Sex with a Dog?
• Excursus II. A Passage in Ṭabarī’s History
• Excursus III. Was Canaan Black?
• Excursus IV. ‘Kushite’ Meaning Egyptian or Arab in Jewish Sources
• Excursus V. A Curse of Ham in Origen?
• Bibliography
• Subject and Name Index
• Index of Modern Authors
• Index to Scripture