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.
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