Noah''s Curse - The Biblical Justification of American Slavery

Zusatztext Outstanding ... determination to show not simply how issues and events look in retrospect, but how they appeared to people at the time. Informationen zum Autor Stephen R. Haynes holds the A.B. Curry Chair of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, where he has taught since 1989. His publications include Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination (1995) and, as co-editor, To Each its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application (1993) Klappentext "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9: 25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to be seen as biblical justification for American slavery and segregation. Examining the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, this book begins with an overview of the prior history of the reception of this scripture and then turns to the distinctive and creative ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters. Zusammenfassung "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren". So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. In this work, Stephen Haynes examines the history of the American interpretation of Noah's curse, turning to the ways in which the curse was appropriated by American pro-slavery and pro-segregation interpreters.

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• Authors: Stephen R Haynes, Stephen R Ed Haynes, Stephen R. Haynes, Stephen R. (Associate Professor and A.b. C Haynes, Stephen R. (Associate Professor and A.B. Curry Chair of Religious Studies Haynes, Stephen R. Ed Haynes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2002
• EAN: 9780195142792
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514279-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Religion in America; Religion in America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History