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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الصفحة iv
... references and index. ISBN 0-19-514279-9 1. Bible. O.T. Genesis IX–XI—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 2. Slavery—Justification. 3. Ham (Biblical figure) 4. United States— Church history. I. Title. II. Religion in America series (Oxford ...
... references and index. ISBN 0-19-514279-9 1. Bible. O.T. Genesis IX–XI—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 2. Slavery—Justification. 3. Ham (Biblical figure) 4. United States— Church history. I. Title. II. Religion in America series (Oxford ...
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... reference to sightlessness is eerily prophetic. For in the succeeding years physical blindness would disable Palmer and ultimately hasten his death. According to eyewitnesses, Palmer never saw the streetcar that struck him down in 1902 ...
... reference to sightlessness is eerily prophetic. For in the succeeding years physical blindness would disable Palmer and ultimately hasten his death. According to eyewitnesses, Palmer never saw the streetcar that struck him down in 1902 ...
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... reference to racial separation in “Babylonian days”—are unconscious expressions of an American interpretive tradition rooted in Genesis 9–11. Dispersion and Differentiation What is the content of these chapters that conclude the ...
... reference to racial separation in “Babylonian days”—are unconscious expressions of an American interpretive tradition rooted in Genesis 9–11. Dispersion and Differentiation What is the content of these chapters that conclude the ...
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... reference to the “spreading abroad” of nations), and 11:1–9 (the story of the tower, culminating in the “scattering” of the builders). Under the influence of these texts and the cultural forces explored in this book, readers of Genesis ...
... reference to the “spreading abroad” of nations), and 11:1–9 (the story of the tower, culminating in the “scattering” of the builders). Under the influence of these texts and the cultural forces explored in this book, readers of Genesis ...
الصفحة 6
... References in Genesis 10 to Babel and Shinar (“The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar,” v. 10) led early Bible readers to cast Nimrod as the antagonist in the drama of the Tower. This ...
... References in Genesis 10 to Babel and Shinar (“The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad, all of them in the land of Shinar,” v. 10) led early Bible readers to cast Nimrod as the antagonist in the drama of the Tower. This ...
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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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