Goldenberg The Curse of Ham

Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2854-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 19, 472 Seiten

Reihe: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldenberg, David M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi

Introduction 1

PART ONE: IMAGES OF BLACKS

ONE

Biblical Israel: The Land of Kush 17

TWO

Biblical Israel: The People of Kush 26

THREE

Postbiblical Israel: Black Africa 41

FOUR

Postbiblical Israel: Black Africans 46

PART TWO: THE COLOR OF SKIN

FIVE

The Color of Women 79

SIX

The Color of Health 93

SEVEN

The Colors of Mankind 95

EIGHT

The Colored Meaning of Kushite in Postbiblical Literature 113

PART THREE: HISTORY

NINE

Evidence for Black Slaves in Israel 131

PART FOUR: AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY AND EXEGESIS

TEN

Was Ham Black? 141

ELEVEN

"Ham Sinned and Canaan was Cursed?!" 157

TWELVE

The Curse of Ham 168

THIRTEEN

The Curse of Cain 178

FOURTEEN

The New World Order: Humanity by Physiognomy 183

Conclusion

Jewish Views of Black Africans and the Development of Anti-Black Sentiment in Western Thought 195

APPENDIX I

When is a Kushite not a Kushite? Cases of Mistaken Identity 201

APPENDIX II

Kush/Ethiopia and India 211

NOTES 213

GLOSSARY OF SOURCES AND TERMS 379

SUBJECT INDEX 395

INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES 413

INDEX OF MODERN SCHOLARS 431

Über Autor(innen)

David M. Goldenbergis Isidore and Theresa Cohen Chair of Jewish Religion and Thought at the University of Cape Town, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly President of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Associate Director of the Annenberg Research Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Editor of The Jewish Quarterly Review.