Early Rabbinic Exegesis on Noah’s Son Ham and the So-Called ‘Hamitic Myth’
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L'A. propose une analyse de l'exegese des passages relatifs a Ham en Genese 9-10 a travers les premieres sources rabbiniques, notamment Genese Rabbah et les deux Talmud, mais aussi la litterature Tanhuma Yelammdenu. L'A. tente de savoir quel a ete l'impact de cette litterature sur le developpement des ideologies juive et europeenne. Il definit ce qu'on appelle le mythe hamitique, analyse les sources bibliques qui soutiennent la controverse. Il semble que l'hermeneutique rabbinique soit a l'origine de conceptions erronees, notamment dans ses rapports avec l'ecriture de l'histoire
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No coherent or systemic association of Ham with blackness and servitude developed prior to the late eighteenth century.
“While forms of the myth had circulated in early Christian, Jewish, and Muslim literature, no coherent or systemic association of Ham with blackness and servitude had developed prior to the late eighteenth century (Goldenberg 1997;Whitford 2009;Aaron 1995).”
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- Authors
- Aaron, D. H.
- Affiliations
- Wellesley College (US)
- Corresponding author
- Aaron, David H.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1995
- Volume
- LXIII
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 721-760
- ISSN
- 0002-7189 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-4585
- OpenAlex
- W2017328671
- Cited by
- 82
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 19 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 20 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Medieval and Classical Philosophy
- Keywords
- rabbinic interpretation, Genesis Rabbah, Talmud, rabbinic hermeneutics, Jewish ideology, biblical exegesis, historical writing
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