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ISBN: | 9780567515735 0567515737 0567029603 9780567029607 0567029700 9780567029706
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-165) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | How did the authors of the Hebrew Bible perceive the Cushites? Sadler demonstrates that the answer to this question provides insights into the way differences that modern scholars would classify as ""racial"" were understood in ancient Israel/Judah. By examining explicit biblical references to Cush and Cushites, a nation and people most modern scholars would deem racially ""black, "" this book explores the manner by which the authors of the Hebrew Bible represented the Cushite, and determines whether differences in human phenotypes facilitated legitimating ideologies that justified the subjugat.
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Other form: | Print version: Sadler, Rodney Steven, 1967- Can a Cushite change his skin?. New York ; London : T & T Clark, ©2005 0567029603 9780567029607
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