David M. Goldenberg The curse of Ham

race and slavery in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Goldenberg examines black Africans in biblical and postbiblical Jewish literature. He moves from Black as an ethnic group to black as color, and to early Jewish attitudes toward dark skin color. He describes when the black African first became identified as slave in the Near East, and discusses the resounding influence of this identification on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinking, noting each tradition's exegetical treatment of pertinent biblical passages.

Engels | 448 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ [etc.] | 2003

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