Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery"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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... means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haynes, Stephen R. Noah's curse : the biblical ...
... means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haynes, Stephen R. Noah's curse : the biblical ...
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... means, or what they are told to believe it means, as there is for what the original author intended, and this can be treated with just the same degree of sensitivity and scientific rigor as a reconstructed original Hebrew text or any ...
... means, or what they are told to believe it means, as there is for what the original author intended, and this can be treated with just the same degree of sensitivity and scientific rigor as a reconstructed original Hebrew text or any ...
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... mean that its application to racial slavery was also taken for granted? This is where the cultural motifs of honor and order prove so helpful. These aspects of Southern slave society operated in symbiosis with the biblical text itself ...
... mean that its application to racial slavery was also taken for granted? This is where the cultural motifs of honor and order prove so helpful. These aspects of Southern slave society operated in symbiosis with the biblical text itself ...
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... mean some sort of angel or heavenly creature) with the “daughters of men.” The flood must have come about, directly or indirectly, as a result of this union. Perhaps it was because of some sort of sexual profligacy implied in this ...
... mean some sort of angel or heavenly creature) with the “daughters of men.” The flood must have come about, directly or indirectly, as a result of this union. Perhaps it was because of some sort of sexual profligacy implied in this ...
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... means race. And so Noah was one of the few individuals at that time who was not racially polluted.61 Thus, just as did ancient Bible readers, contemporary interpreters of the Deluge seek textual clues wherever they can be found. The ...
... means race. And so Noah was one of the few individuals at that time who was not racially polluted.61 Thus, just as did ancient Bible readers, contemporary interpreters of the Deluge seek textual clues wherever they can be found. The ...
Contents
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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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