Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00269)

Teos9@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 05/24/00 12:23:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> bartl@sprynet.com writes:
>
> <<   From Christian sources, I have heard that the Africans are called the
>  "Hamitic" people, and the people from the Far East are supposedly descended
> from
>  "Yapheth". >>
>
> Thanks again Bart. Do you have any idea how Jewish or non Christian sources
> answer the question of who were the descendants of Ham and Yapheth? I
> appreciate your feedback.

    Actually, I don't. Not that the information is necessarily not there, but I
never bothered to find out. In the two cases I outlined, the supposed Hamitic
anscestry of the Africans was used as an excuse for the enslavement of Africans
by the Europeans (don't make me go into THAT one; I would be required to
actually do some additional research to give a full picture).

    Bart Lidofsky


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