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This Strange Story: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Curse of Canaan from Antiquity to 1865

This Strange Story: Jewish and Christian Interpretation of the Curse of Canaan from Antiquity to 1865

Davis, Stacy

Paperback

Religion General

ISBN10: 0761838791
ISBN13: 9780761838791
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: Nov 1 2007
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.31 Depth: 8.75
Language: English

This book addresses the claim that an American antebellum era anti-African reading of the curse of Canaan story originated in rabbinic literature. By tracing the curse of Canaan's history of interpretation from the beginning of the Common Era to 1865, with particular emphasis on the neglected medieval period, this work examines this long-held false claim.

Although Jewish readings of the curse of Canaan appear in medieval Christian commentaries, no Jewish references to skin color are repeated in Christian exegesis. Therefore, the book argues that the anti-African antebellum reading develops in response both to abolitionism and the biblical text's establishment of a social hierarchy that divides humankind into slaves and masters.

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