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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... divine Benjamin Morgan Palmer. And part IV revisits the history of interpretation, focuses on traditions of counterreading, and offers a redemptive interpretation of Noah's curse. This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments A ...
... divine Benjamin Morgan Palmer. And part IV revisits the history of interpretation, focuses on traditions of counterreading, and offers a redemptive interpretation of Noah's curse. This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments A ...
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... divine and earthly realms and to divide human beings by confusing “their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech” (v. 7). Thus, whether dispersion or differentiation is emphasized, the Tower story may be ...
... divine and earthly realms and to divide human beings by confusing “their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech” (v. 7). Thus, whether dispersion or differentiation is emphasized, the Tower story may be ...
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... divine, Palmer's influence was considerable between the mid-1850s and his death in 1902.47 In sermons from the pulpit of New Orleans's First Church—arguably the most prestigious Presbyterian post in the South—Palmer “raise[d] the ...
... divine, Palmer's influence was considerable between the mid-1850s and his death in 1902.47 In sermons from the pulpit of New Orleans's First Church—arguably the most prestigious Presbyterian post in the South—Palmer “raise[d] the ...
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... divine judgment upon “race mixing”; and employment of passages from Genesis 10 and 11 to construct a theological rationale for South African apartheid. Because these episodes in the history of modern racist biblical exegesis overlap in ...
... divine judgment upon “race mixing”; and employment of passages from Genesis 10 and 11 to construct a theological rationale for South African apartheid. Because these episodes in the history of modern racist biblical exegesis overlap in ...
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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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