Description |
1 online resource (xx, 448 pages) |
Series |
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world |
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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Contents |
I: Images of blacks -- 1. Biblical Israel: the land of Kush -- 2. Biblical Israel: the people of Kush -- 3. Postbiblical Israel: black Africa -- 4. Postbiblical Israel: black Africans -- II: The color of skin -- 5. The color of women -- 6. The color of health -- 7. The colors of mankind -- 8. The colored meaning of Kushite in postbiblical literature -- III: History -- 9. Evidence for black slaves in Israel -- IV: At the crossroads of history and exegesis -- 10. Was Ham back? -- 11. "Ham sinned and Canaan was cursed?" -- 12. The curse of Ham -- 13. The curse of Cain -- 14. The new world of order: humanity by physiognomy -- Jewish views of black Africans and the development of anti-black sentiment in western thought -- When is a Kushite not a Kushite? Cases of mistake identity -- Kush/Ethiopia and India |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-378) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Ham (Biblical figure)
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SUBJECT |
Ham (Biblical figure)
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Ham (Biblical figure) fast |
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Bible. Genesis, IX, 18-25 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Black people in the Bible.
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Black people -- Public opinion -- History -- To 1500
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Jews -- Attitudes -- History -- To 1500
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Christians -- Attitudes -- History -- To 1500
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Muslims -- Attitudes -- History -- To 1500
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Slavery -- Justification -- History
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Black race -- Color.
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RELIGION -- Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict.
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RELIGION -- History.
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Black race -- Color
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Black people in the Bible
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Black people -- Public opinion
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Christians -- Attitudes
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Jews -- Attitudes
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Muslims -- Attitudes
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Slavery -- Justification
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781400828548 |
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1400828546 |
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1282303759 |
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9781282303751 |
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9786612303753 |
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6612303751 |
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