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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... segregation, and genocide? Though I have not arrived at a conclusive answer to this question, it continues to exercise my mind and soul. This book is a public attempt to place it in larger historical, theological, and cultural ...
... segregation, and genocide? Though I have not arrived at a conclusive answer to this question, it continues to exercise my mind and soul. This book is a public attempt to place it in larger historical, theological, and cultural ...
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... segregation. This study is thoroughly and unapologetically interdisciplinary. It incorporates methodologies associated with history, biblical studies, literary criticism, the history of interpretation, theology, and anthropology. In ...
... segregation. This study is thoroughly and unapologetically interdisciplinary. It incorporates methodologies associated with history, biblical studies, literary criticism, the history of interpretation, theology, and anthropology. In ...
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... segregation based on the Tower of Babel, NBC's embellishments on the story of Noah, and Representative Littlejohn's cryptic reference to racial separation in “Babylonian days”—are unconscious expressions of an American interpretive ...
... segregation based on the Tower of Babel, NBC's embellishments on the story of Noah, and Representative Littlejohn's cryptic reference to racial separation in “Babylonian days”—are unconscious expressions of an American interpretive ...
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... segregation. These chapters reveal, however, that American reliance on Genesis 9–11 as a source for discerning God's will in racial matters is responsible for significant continuities between the proslavery and prosegregation arguments ...
... segregation. These chapters reveal, however, that American reliance on Genesis 9–11 as a source for discerning God's will in racial matters is responsible for significant continuities between the proslavery and prosegregation arguments ...
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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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