3:1-3). In that same vein the list of the children of Noah goes like this: Shem, Ham and Japheth (Gen. 9:18 and Gen. 10: 1). This clearly suggests that Japheth was the youngest son of Noah and not ...

And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt ...

The name ‘Ham’ means ‘black,’ or ‘burnt.’ Thus, Ham, who was one of the three sons of Noah, was black. The Bible, in the Old Testament, repeatedly refers to Egypt as the ‘Land of Ham ...

In the words of the King James Bible, which was the version then current, these were, first, Genesis IX, 18–27: “And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth ...

The Book of Genesis records an instance of Noah cursing his son Ham's descendants to be slaves. Although there is no biblical evidence that Ham was the "father" of African peoples, various Jewish ...

Q: I am doing the Bible in a year with Father Schmitz. I am trying to understand how the story of Ham who saw his father naked was interpreted to involve incest? A: My questioner this week ...

How has the story of Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, which contains no explicit reference to black people, become linked to the institution of slavery? David Goldenberg, a scholar of ...