The Curse of Ham: Satans Vicious Cycle

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Phyllis Wiggins (Author of The Curse of Ham)

Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. The author makes some great points about Ham and the legacy of his descendants that are worth reading and understanding. However, she does not give teachable and applicable tools in order to restore ourselves from this curse. It's the difference between telling someone to go reclaim their heritage and showing somehow how to with real do-able steps. The Curse of Ham itself gives no any grounds for such gross misuse, and misinterpretation, as the majority of Christian Theologians have always argued, yet agenda-driven intellectuals found ways to exploit the vagueness and mystery of Genesis to further their own ends.

While Genesis 9 never says that Ham was black, he became associated with black skin, through folk etymology deriving his name from a similar, but actually unconnected, word meaning "dark" or "brown". According to one legend preserved in the Babylonian Talmud , God cursed Ham because he broke a prohibition on sex aboard the ark and "was smitten in his skin"; [51] according to another, Noah cursed him because he castrated his father.

The concepts were introduced into Islam during the Arab expansion of the 7th century, due to cross-pollination of Jewish and Christian parables and theology into Islam, called " Isra'iliyyat ". An independent interpretation of the curse being imposed on all of the descendants of Ham persisted in Judaism, especially since the other children of Ham were situated in the African continent; i.

In medieval Christian exegesis, Ham's sin was regarded as laughter for mocking his father and doing nothing to rectify his condition. Elsewhere in Medieval Europe, the "Curse of Ham" also became used as a justification for serfdom. However, he also followed the interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7: The idea that serfs were the descendants of Ham soon became widely promoted in Europe.

An example is Dame Juliana Berners c.

Ham also figured in an immensely influential work Commentaria super opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus Commentaries on the Works of Various Authors Discussing Antiquity. In , Annius of Viterbo claimed to have translated records of Berossus , an ancient Babylonian priest and scholar; which are today usually considered an elaborate forgery. However, they gained great influence over Renaissance ways of thinking about population and migration, filling a historical gap following the biblical account of the flood.

He became jealous of Noah's additional children born after the deluge, and began to view his father with enmity, and one day, when Noah lay drunk and naked in his tent, Ham saw him and sang a mocking incantation that rendered Noah temporarily sterile, as if castrated. Ham in this version also abandoned his wife who had been aboard the ark and had mothered the African peoples, and instead married his sister Rhea, daughter of Noah, producing a race of giants in Sicily.

The explanation that black Africans, as the "sons of Ham", were cursed, possibly "blackened" by their sins, was advanced only sporadically during the Middle Ages, but it became increasingly common during the slave trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the parts of Africa where Christianity flourished in the early days, while it was still illegal in Rome, this idea never took hold, and its interpretation of scripture was never adopted by the African Coptic Churches. A modern Amharic commentary on Genesis notes the nineteenth century and earlier European theory that blacks were subject to whites as a result of the "curse of Ham", but calls this a false teaching unsupported by the text of the Bible, emphatically pointing out that Noah's curse fell not upon all descendants of Ham, but only on the descendants of Canaan, and asserting that it was fulfilled when Canaan was occupied by both Semites Israel and Japhetites.

The commentary further notes that Canaanites ceased to exist politically after the Third Punic War BC , and that their current descendants are thus unknown and scattered among all peoples.

The Curse of Ham : Satan's Vicious Cycle (2005, Hardcover)

Robert Boyle —a seventeenth-century scientist who also was a theologian and a devout Christian—refuted the idea that blackness was a Curse of Ham, in his book Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours And not only we do not find expressed in the Scripture, that the Curse meant by Noah to Cham , was the Blackness of his Posterity, but we do find plainly enough there that the Curse was quite another thing, namely that he should be a Servant of Servants, that is by an Ebraism, a very Abject Servant to his Brethren, which accordingly did in part come to pass, when the Israelites of the posterity of Sem , subdued the Canaanites , that descended from Cham , and kept them in great Subjection.

Nor is it evident that Blackness is a Curse, for Navigators tell us of Black Nations, who think so much otherwise of their own condition, that they paint the Devil White. So that I see not why Blackness should be thought such a Curse to the Negroes A number of other scholars also support the claim that the racialized version of the Curse of Ham was devised at that time because it suited ideological and economical interests of the European elite and slave traders who wanted to justify exploitation of African labour.

It explicitly denotes that an Egyptian king by the name of Pharaoh was a descendant of Ham and the Canaanites, [77] who were black, Moses 7: This passage is the only one found in any Mormon scripture that bars a particular lineage of people from holding the priesthood, and, while nothing in the Book of Abraham explicitly denotes Noah's curse was the same curse mentioned in the Bible or that the Egyptians were related to other black Africans, [80] it later became the foundation of church policy in regards to the priesthood ban. In the following year, Smith taught that the Curse of Ham came from God, and that blacks were cursed with servitude.

Kimball said he received a revelation that extended the priesthood to all worthy male members of the church without regard to race or color. The Old Testament student manual, which is published by the Church and is the manual currently used to teach the Old Testament in LDS Institutes, teaches that Canaan could not hold the priesthood because of his ancestral lineage but mentions nothing of race or skin color:. Therefore, although Ham himself had the right to the priesthood, Canaan, his son, did not.

Ham had married Egyptus, a descendant of Cain Abraham 1: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Silbermann, A Blashki, L. The Curse of Ham: They argue that the Negro is inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham. Oh my friends, this is blasphemy. This is against everything that the Christian religion stands for. I must say to you as I have said to so many Christians before, that in Christ "there is neither Jew nor Gentile, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for we are all one in Christ Jesus.

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