Gay L. Byron is author of Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature (Routledge) and associate professor of New Testament at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York.
Articles by Gay L. Byron
Books
The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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?
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