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Language: en
Pages: 468
Pages: 468
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-11 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 387
Pages: 387
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Studies of the Curse of Ham, the belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, confuse and conflate two separate origins stories (etiologies)
Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpr
Language: en
Pages: 566
Pages: 566
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-hold