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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, were portrayed in the Bible and by those who interpreted the Bible--Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Unprecedented in rigor and breadth, his investigation covers a 1,500-year period, from ancient Israel (around 800 B.C.E.) to the eighth century C.E., after the birth of Islam. By tracing the development of anti-Black sentiment during this time, Goldenberg uncovers views about race, color, and slavery that took shape over the centuries--most centrally, the belief that the biblical Ham and his descendants, the black Africans, had been cursed by God with eternal slavery. Goldenberg begins by examining a host of references to black Africans in biblical and postbiblical Jewish literature. From there he moves the inquiry from Black as an ethnic group to black as color, and early Jewish attitudes toward dark skin color. He goes on to ask when the black African first became identified as slave in the Near East, and, in a powerful culmination, discusses the resounding influence of this identification on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinking, noting each tradition's exegetical treatment of pertinent biblical passages. Authoritative, fluidly written, and situated at a richly illuminating nexus of images, attitudes, and history, The Curse of Ham is sure to have a profound and lasting impact on the perennial debate over the roots of racism and slavery, and on the study of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Black race --- Slavery --- Muslims --- Christians --- Jews --- Blacks --- Blacks in the Bible. --- Color of the black race --- Human skin color --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Islam --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Semites --- Judaism --- Negroes --- Negro race in the Bible --- Color. --- Justification --- History. --- Attitudes --- History --- Public opinion --- Color --- Ham --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Cham --- Black people --- Black persons --- Blacks in the Bible --- Black people in the Bible. --- Enslaved persons --- 2 Maccabees. --- Abolitionism. --- Adultery. --- Aggadah. --- Ambrosiaster. --- Anti-Judaism. --- Antisemitism. --- Antithesis. --- Apocalypse of Abraham. --- Apocrypha. --- Apocryphon. --- Arabic. --- Arabs. --- Asher. --- Babylonian captivity. --- Bar Hebraeus. --- Biblical Hebrew. --- Biblical apocrypha. --- Blemmyes. --- Book of Lamentations. --- Canaan. --- Church Fathers. --- Creation myth. --- Curse of Ham. --- Cushi. --- Dark skin. --- Desert Fathers. --- Disputation. --- Ebed-Melech. --- Egyptians. --- Epaphus. --- Essenes. --- Etiology. --- Etymology. --- Eupolemus. --- Exegesis. --- Ezekiel. --- Generations of Noah. --- Genesis Apocryphon. --- Gentile. --- God. --- Gog and Magog. --- Haggadah. --- Hamitic. --- Hebrews. --- Hezekiah. --- Idolatry. --- Isaiah. --- Islam. --- Israelites. --- Japheth. --- Jehovah. --- Jephthah. --- Jerusalem Talmud. --- Jewish history. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judas Maccabeus. --- Kingdom of Judah. --- Kingdom of Kush. --- Late Antiquity. --- Leprosy. --- Literature. --- Maimonides. --- Mamzer. --- Mandaeans. --- Mandaeism. --- Masoretic Text. --- Midian. --- Midrash HaGadol. --- Midrash Rabba. --- Midrash. --- Miscegenation. --- Naphtali. --- Negev. --- Nubia. --- Obscenity. --- Old Greek. --- Plagues of Egypt. --- Proselyte. --- Pseudo-Philo. --- Rabbi. --- Rabbinic literature. --- Racism. --- Rashi. --- Red Jews. --- Semitic people. --- Septuagint. --- Sin. --- Slavery. --- Social death. --- Sodomy. --- Targum Pseudo-Jonathan. --- Targum. --- Tarshish. --- Tosafot. --- Wickedness. --- Zedekiah. --- Zephaniah. --- Zipporah.
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"This book provides a historical reconstruction of a famous trial in the antebellum American South in which the Bible was invoked alternatively by the prosecution and the defense as both a pro- and antislavery text"--
Slavery and the church. --- Vesey, Denmark, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Bible --- Black interpretations. --- Charleston (S.C.) --- History --- Abolitionism. --- African Methodist Episcopal Church. --- Algernon Sidney. --- Amalekites (Book of Mormon). --- American Colonization Society. --- Apologetics. --- Baptists. --- Bible society. --- Book of Judges. --- Book of Leviticus. --- Capital punishment. --- Catechism. --- Christianity. --- Confucianism. --- Daniel Payne. --- Denmark Vesey. --- Epistle to Philemon. --- Fall of man. --- Free negro. --- Fugitive Slave Clause. --- Generations of Noah. --- God. --- Gullah Jack. --- Hebrews. --- Henry Bibb. --- Israelites. --- James Osgood Andrew. --- Japheth. --- John 14. --- John Drayton. --- John Jea. --- John the Baptist. --- Justification (theology). --- Letters from an American Farmer. --- Lydia Maria Child. --- Martin Luther King, Jr. --- Methodism. --- Missouri Compromise. --- Morris Brown. --- Nat Turner. --- Nathaniel Ward. --- Negro Act of 1740. --- Old Testament. --- Ottobah Cugoano. --- Pamphlet. --- Pennsylvania Abolition Society. --- Religion. --- Richard Furman. --- Robert L. Paquette. --- Samuel Sewall. --- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. --- Slave rebellion. --- Slavery in the United States. --- Slavery. --- Spiritual (music). --- Stono Rebellion. --- The African Church. --- The Day of the Lord. --- The Exodus. --- Thomas Wentworth Higginson. --- Thou shalt not steal. --- Three Witnesses. --- Treason. --- Trial of the Six. --- Two witnesses. --- V. --- Workhouse. --- Zechariah (priest).
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