L´ivresse de Noé | Guillaume Hervieux

EAN : 9782262027728

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Pages : 372

Size : 154 x 240 mm

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THE DRUNKENNESS OF NOAH

Guillaume Hervieux

Release date : 27/01/2011

The “curse of Shem” was long used as a justification for the enslavement of Africans. But it has played a less well known role in other episodes of history, as this work reveals thanks to a thorough analysis of the myth from its origins to the present.
Nearly everyone has... The “curse of Shem” was long used as a justification for the enslavement of Africans. But it has played a less well known role in other episodes of history, as this work reveals thanks to a thorough analysis of the myth from its origins to the present.
Nearly everyone has heard of the curse of Shem. One day Shem, one of Noah's three sons, found his father in his tent, drunk and naked. A furious Noah punished Shem by cursing his son's son, Canaan, and all his descendants, condemning them to be slaves of their brothers down to the last generation. Canaan was neither black nor African, but Shem, whose mother was presumably black, may have been. But, what are these sacred texts really all about? Were they really used as a justification for the enslavement of Africans, as was long professed? If the role of this myth in the legitimization of the enslavement of black people is widely known, what is less so are the many other instances in which it has been used, starting with the founding of the first state of Israel in antiquity down to the current conflicts of what some perceive to be a war of civilisations. The United States and the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa have also been the scene of historical incidents influenced by the age-old legend of the curse of Shem. This is a work that explores all the questions related to this myth throughout history, a study of a legend, from its origins to the present.

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EAN : 9782262027728

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Pages : 372

Size : 154 x 240 mm

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