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 ...

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 ...

And Shem and Japheth took a garment ... In the later Roman and early medieval periods, Jewish, Christian and Islamic scholars speculated that the curse of Ham explained why Africans were dark ...

Biblically derived myths led pre-colonial anthropologists to divide all humans into the descendants of Noah’s three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. Dark skinned peoples were thought to be the sons ...

"The Lord shall broaden and beautify Japheth, and he [or perhaps He] shall dwell in the tents of Shem," (Genesis 9:27). parasha Hanukka_521 (photo credit: Picture from the Parsha.) Why is there no ...

Sotheby’s announced that it will auction the illuminated Shem Tov Bible, a sacred medieval manuscript, in September. According to Sotheby’s, the Bible manuscript was written in 1312 by ...