Noah's Curse The Biblical Justification of American Slavery
by Haynes, Stephen R.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-02-03
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
"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.
Author Biography
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)
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Noah's Curse | p. 2 |
| Setting the Stage | p. 3 |
| Characters in the Postdiluvian Drama | p. 21 |
| The Legend of Noah and His Sons | p. 23 |
| The Legend of Nimrod and His Tower | p. 41 |
| Honor and Order | p. 63 |
| Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery | p. 65 |
| Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery | p. 87 |
| Nimrod Comes to America | p. 105 |
| Noah's Camera | p. 123 |
| Genesis 9-11 and Benjamin Morgan Palmer | p. 125 |
| Honor, Order, and Mastery in Palmer's Biblical Imagination | p. 146 |
| Noah's Camera in the Twentieth Century | p. 161 |
| Redeeming the Curse | p. 175 |
| Readings and Counterreadings | p. 177 |
| Ham as Victim | p. 201 |
| Racism, Religion, and Responsible Scholarship | p. 220 |
| Notes | p. 223 |
| Bibliography | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 314 |
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