Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American SlaveryOxford University Press, 28/03/2002 - 322 من الصفحات "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 interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as biblical justification for American slavery and segregation. Examining the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, this book begins with an overview of the prior history of the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters. |
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... Japheth in America, which traces the contours of the curse in the collective mind of the Old South and elucidates the ways it functioned to sustain the worldview of antebellum Southerners when their peculiar institution came under ...
... Japheth in America, which traces the contours of the curse in the collective mind of the Old South and elucidates the ways it functioned to sustain the worldview of antebellum Southerners when their peculiar institution came under ...
الصفحة 4
... Japheth; children were born to them after the flood” (v. 1), and “These are the families of Noah's sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood” (v. 32) ...
... Japheth; children were born to them after the flood” (v. 1), and “These are the families of Noah's sons, according to their genealogies, in their nations; and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood” (v. 32) ...
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... Japheth. Triggered by some transgression on the part of Ham, Noah prophesies the distinct destinies his sons' descendants will assume in the corporate development of humankind. In part because it conforms to notions that humanity is ...
... Japheth. Triggered by some transgression on the part of Ham, Noah prophesies the distinct destinies his sons' descendants will assume in the corporate development of humankind. In part because it conforms to notions that humanity is ...
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... Japheth to Europe was not inscribed on the European mind until the Age of Exploration.9 By the nineteenth century, the same intellectual and social forces that contributed to the racialization of Noah's prophecy came to bear on Genesis ...
... Japheth to Europe was not inscribed on the European mind until the Age of Exploration.9 By the nineteenth century, the same intellectual and social forces that contributed to the racialization of Noah's prophecy came to bear on Genesis ...
الصفحة 23
... Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine and knew ...
... Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine and knew ...
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HONOR AND ORDER | 63 |
NOAHS CAMERA | 123 |
REDEEMING THE CURSE | 175 |
Notes | 223 |
Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 314 |
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