{"product_id":"the-curse-of-ham-9780691123707","title":"The Curse of Ham","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWere the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? This book seeks to discover how dark-skinned people, especially black Africans, were portrayed in the Bible and by those who interpreted the Bible - Jews, Christians, and Muslims.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2005 Meritorious Publication Award, University of Cape Town \"[A] sweeping and ambitious work... [T]he research is meticulous and important.\"--Publishers Weekly \"Goldenberg's study is clearly a work of mature scholarship on an important theme... He writes in an accessible style and makes complex matters intelligible to nonspecialists. In fact, I often became so engrossed in his argument that I thought I was reading a detective story.\"--Daniel J Harrington, America \"Goldenberg has produced what may well become the definitive study of race and slavery in the Old Testament texts... In a work particularly valuable for its comprehensiveness and philology, Goldenberg's research is monumental; the writing is clear as a bell; the arguments are not only cogent, but honest... In short, this is a wonderful book and I hope that it finds many readers.\"--Molly Myerowitz Levine, Bryn Mawr Classical Review \"For so massively erudite a work this book is remarkably accessible. Goldenberg is sufficiently persuaded of the importance of the case he is making- that the Bible does not measure people's worth by the color of their skin--not to encumber the main body of his book with the kind of extended academic argument in whose thickets most readers would soon be lost... [He has a] conviction that a scholarly work, if it has something important to say, should not be just for scholars.\"--John Pridmore, Church Times \"An outstanding and comprehensive study.\"--Choice \"[A] masterly book... With scrupulously meticulous and erudite scholarship, Goldenberg examines a plethora of source material and is a competent and assured guide through this labyrinth.\"--Desmond Tutu, Times Higher Education Supplement \"The Curse of Ham will clearly have a significant impact on the perennial debate over the roots of racism and slavery and on the study of early Judaism, Christianity and Islam. My view is that this volume ought to be required reading for all Black scholars. Biblical exegetes, theologians and clergy will all find this a valuable resource.\"--Michael N. Jagessar,Black Theology \"[This] book is the result of thirteen years of steady research and presents what is often highly technical scholarship and linguistic analysis in a readable, cogent manner...The Curse of Ham represents an important step towards increasing the ability of those who view the Bible as scripture to avoid continuing this error.\"--Stirling Adams, BYU Studies \"Goldenberg has delved into the murky story which forms the focus of Genesis, Chapter 9: Noah's emergence from the flood, his drunken stupor, and his subsequent embarrassment at his son Ham's viewing of his nakedness. This is not only a meticulously documented work but an extraordinarily well-written inquiry...His purpose is to ascertain how this verse was transformed from a curse directed at Ham's son to a blanket condemnation of an entire race.\"--Arnold Ages, Chicago Jewish Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix  LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi  Introduction 1  PART ONE: IMAGES OF BLACKS  ONE  Biblical Israel: The Land of Kush 17  TWO  Biblical Israel: The People of Kush 26  THREE  Postbiblical Israel: Black Africa 41  FOUR  Postbiblical Israel: Black Africans 46  PART TWO: THE COLOR OF SKIN  FIVE  The Color of Women 79  SIX  The Color of Health 93  SEVEN  The Colors of Mankind 95  EIGHT  The Colored Meaning of Kushite in Postbiblical Literature 113  PART THREE: HISTORY  NINE  Evidence for Black Slaves in Israel 131  PART FOUR: AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY AND EXEGESIS  TEN  Was Ham Black? 141  ELEVEN  \"Ham Sinned and Canaan was Cursed?!\" 157  TWELVE  The Curse of Ham 168  THIRTEEN  The Curse of Cain 178  FOURTEEN  The New World Order: Humanity by Physiognomy 183  Conclusion  Jewish Views of Black Africans and the Development of Anti-Black Sentiment in Western Thought 195  APPENDIX I  When is a Kushite not a Kushite? Cases of Mistaken Identity 201  APPENDIX II  Kush\/Ethiopia and India 211  NOTES 213  GLOSSARY OF SOURCES AND TERMS 379  SUBJECT INDEX 395  INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES 413  INDEX OF MODERN SCHOLARS 431","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403739046231,"sku":"9780691123707","price":37.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-curse-of-ham-9780691123707","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}