I checked out this book as a challenge to my studies done by the Southern Writers and the Puritans on the Curse of Ham. I thought being a book published at Princeton University, the author would strongly challenge my position, even partially if not fully refute it. On the contrary, the author wrote this book in ignorance of the most important issue that I have cited in my work:
The book of Jasher (Which I drew attention to in this article) interpreted Genesis 9 and gave the Southern interpretation word for word. What does Goldenberg say about Jasher? Not a single word!
Go ahead and do a word search for “Jasher” in his book: (link)
He doesn’t mention it once.
Now to highlight the embarrassment let’s take a fresh look at Jasher’s passage:
The Book of Jasher, quoted in, Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18, states,
73: 30 So Moses took the city by his wisdom, and the children of Cush placed him on the throne instead of Kikianus king of Cush. 31 And they placed the royal crown upon his head, and they gave him for a wife Adoniah the Cushite queen, wife of Kikianus. 32 And Moses feared the Lord God of his fathers, so that he came not to her, nor did he turn his eyes to her.33 For Moses remembered how Abraham had made his servant Eliezer swear, saying unto him, Thou shalt not take a woman from the daughters of Canaan for my son Isaac. 34 Also what Isaac did when Jacob had fled from his brother, when he commanded him, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan, nor make alliance with any of the children of Ham. 35 For the Lord our God gave Ham the son of Noah, and his children and all his seed, as slaves to the children of Shem and to the children of Japheth, and unto their seed after them for slaves, forever.
When we examine Joshua’s and Samuel’s words we see that this book is not simply quoted by the authors. The entire work is referenced and suggested by the author to read as an authoritative history of the Jewish people.
Now to Goldenberg’s big problem:
Referencing Jer. 13:23, a classic passage proving that the Kushite people were black, Goldenberg admits that the Kushites were black. Goldenberg states,
“Jeremiah is simply using the Kushite’s black skin as a metaphor for that which is unchangeable.” (pg. 38)
Now, if he admits that the Kushites were black, his entire work, which was written to disprove the traditional interpretation of the Hamite curse, is destroyed by Jasher. Jasher states that the Kushites were a line of Ham, and,
“For the Lord our God gave Ham the son of Noah, and his children and all his seed, as slaves to the children of Shem and to the children of Japheth, and unto their seed after them for slaves, forever.”
To make matters even worse for Mr. Goldenberg, in his Journal article, “It Is Permitted to Marry a Kushite”, (link) he again totally fails to mention a single word of this.
Sorry, Mr. Goldenberg, your attempt to justify the invasion, mass murder, torture, gang rape and continuing Genocide of my family fails.
I searched for a way to contact Mr. Goldenberg but found nothing.