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Babylonian Talmud (before 600AD)

 

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Taken from: The Popes, the Catholic Church and the Transatlantic Enslavement of Black ...

 

By Pius Onyemechi Adiele.

 

Note: in this book is also found Talmudic folklore known as Jewish Midrashim; the text given is part of one of these stories.

 

Ham is told by his father Noah that: because you have abused me in the darkness of the night, your children shall be born black and ugly; because you have twisted your head to cause me embarrassment, they shall have kinky hair and red eyes; because your lips jested at my exposure, theirs shall swell; and because you neglected my nakedness, they shall go naked with their shamefully elongated male members exposed to all to see.

A page from a Talmud in the British Library.