NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to author David Goldenberg about his new book, The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

As narrated in Genesis 9, the ancient patriarch drinks too much, goes to bed naked and is discovered by Ham, one of his three sons. Ham goes off to tell his brothers, Shem and Japheth, who cover their ...

Nonetheless Noah is seriously steamed with Ham and curses him and subjects him to the power of his two brothers. We read: “And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done ...

The movie implies that Noah and his family don’t eat meat — when Noah and Ham are attacked by Tubal-Cain’s people, Ham is confused about why they’d be killing animals.

Noah wakes up, sees what’s happened, goes ballistic and, for some inexplicable reason, curses Ham’s son, Canaan. And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

When Noah awoke, he cursed Ham’s descendants but blessed his other sons (Genesis 9: 24-27). That was the first time Noah was directly quoted in the entire four-chapters .

Father Gregory Elder answers a reader's question about Ham, Noah's son. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now °F. ... Professing Faith: The troubling curse of Ham in… Share this: ...