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The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
David M. Goldenberg
Hardcover. Princeton University Press 2003-10.
ISBN 9780691114651
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How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that
fuelled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European
discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this book, David Goldenberg seeks to
discover how dark-skinned peoples, especially black Africans, were portrayed in
the Bible and by those who interpreted the Bible - by Jews, Christians and
Muslims. His investigations cover a 1500-year period, from ancient Israel
(around 800 BCE) to the 8th century CE, after the birth of Islam. By tracing
the development of anti-Black sentiment during this time, Goldenberg uncovers
views about race, colour and slavery that took shape over the centuries - most
centrally, the belief that the biblical Ham and his descendants, the black
Africans, had been cursed by God with eternal slavery. Goldenberg begins by examining a host of references to black Africans in
biblical and post-biblical Jewish literature. From there he moves the inquiry
from Black as an ethnic group to black as colour, and early Jewish attitudes
towards dark skin colour. He goes on to ask when the black African first became
identified as slave in the Near East, and, in a powerful culmination, discusses
the resounding influence of this identification on Jewish, Christian and
Islamic thinking, noting each tradition's exegetical treatment of pertinent
biblical passages. David Goldenberg seeks to discover how dark-skinned peoples, especially
black Africans, were portrayed in the Bible and by those who interpreted the
Bible - by Jews, Christians and Muslims. His investigations cover a 1500-year
period, from ancient Israel to after the birth of Islam.
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