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Ham is not Black
Lud, son of Shem
According to Genesis 10, Mizraim (a son of Ham) was the younger brother of Cush and elder brother of Phut and Canaan, whose families together made up the Hamite branch of Noah's descendants. Mizraim's sons were Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim (out of whom came Philistines), and Caphtorim (Sea People). The chronicle of Hippolytus of Rome (c. 234 AD) identifies Lud's descendants with the Lazones (name usually taken as variant of the "Halizones" said by Strabo to have once lived along the Halys). Since the 17th century a number of suggestions have been made that relate the name Ham to a Hebrew word for burnt, black or hot, to an Egyptian word for servant or the Egyptian word Kmt for Egypt. A review of David Goldenberg's The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam states that Goldenberg "argues persuasively that the biblical name Ham bears no relationship at all to the notion of blackness and as of now is of unknown etymology." The curse which Noah uttered against Ham has been edited so as to apply to Canaan (Gn 9:25-27).
Main article: Curse of Ham Last edited by Theodore; July 10th, 2015 at 10:24 PM. |
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