The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)

How old is prejudice against black people? Were the racist attitudes that fueled the Atlantic slave trade firmly in place 700 years before the European discovery of sub-Saharan Africa? In this groundbreaking 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--Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Unprecedented in rigor and breadth, his investigation covers a 1,500-year period, from ancient Israel (around 800 B.C.E.) to the eighth century C.E., after the birth of Islam. By tracing the development of anti-Black sentiment during this time, Goldenberg uncovers views about race, color, 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 postbiblical Jewish literature. From there he moves the inquiry from Black as an ethnic group to black as color, and early Jewish attitudes toward dark skin color. 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.
 Authoritative, fluidly written, and situated at a richly illuminating nexus of images, attitudes, and history, The Curse of Ham is sure to have a profound and lasting impact on the perennial debate over the roots of racism and slavery, and on the study of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

History

Goldenberg, David M.

Ancient Civilizations

Princeton University Press

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Cancer Therapy with Radiolabeled Antibodies

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Medicine

CRC-Press

Mortgages and foreclosure: Know your rights (Self-counsel series)

Business & Money

Real Estate

International Self-Counsel Press

Mortgages and Foreclosure: Know Your Rights

McGraw-Hill Companies

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The Scenturion Spy: Book One - Becoming a Spy

Literature & Fiction

Booklocker.com

In this stimulating debut novel, protagonist Dr, Milton Davidson, MD, PhD, a pathologist and cancer researcher working at a prominent medical school in New York City, is recruited by the CIA as a spy, to provide intelligence on Russian military bioweapons research involving odors that target the brain directly through smell receptors in the nose. Davidson studied human olfaction during his graduate school education.Under the academic guise of a research sabbatical on environmental exposures to noxious odors, as well as a CIA cover of starting up a Moscow-based biopharmaceutical company focused on developing nasally-delivered therapies for neurological diseases (with assistance from the Israel-based Mossad), the young scientist/would-be entrepreneur/novice spy quickly becomes entangled in relationships with female spies that pose risks to both the mission and his life. Because the sense of smell is the least studied and understood of our five senses, this novel introduces a potentially new drug therapy involving smelling defined odors, as well as insight into an international competition on the use of scents in bioweaponry. Despite being protected by a prominent Russian oligarch who chairs the Board of his biopharmaceutical startup, his espionage comes under the scrutiny of Russia's dangerous military intelligence service, the GRU.Can Milt escape the scrutiny of the GRU? Can he gain the loyalty of the Jewish chemist who directs the Russian research on the use of odors in bioweapons? The answers to these questions unfold over the page-turning course of this exciting first novel breaking through the conventional genre, leaving us yearning for the sequel. The science described is authentic, but the author speculates on new medical approaches for both the lay reader and scientist.

A history of the Curse of Ham, the belief that the Bible consigned blacks to everlasting servitude, a belief that, incorrect as it was, validated the enslavement of black Africans, from late antiquity to modern times. This book unravels the exegetical and interpretive strands of the belief, uncovering its beginnings in the Near East and tracing its reception and dispersion in Europe and the New World.

Black and Slave: The Origins and History of the Curse of Ham (Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR), 10)

World

de Gruyter

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