Cain, Abel, and Shem...

[jm]

>Not to underrate Mr. Dinn's literary knowledge, but just to set straight 
>some Biblical chronology (izzat an oxymoron?): Abel and Cain, among 
>others, were Adam's sons, and there were a number of generations between 
>ol' Abel and Cain, those sonsabitches, and Noah, the progenitor of Shem 
>(father of the Arabs and Jews), Ham (father of the black Africans), and 
>Japheth (father of everyone else?).  See Genesis 5-11 for information 
>concerning the lineage, the doubting of which will cause your eternal 
>damnation.  ObPynchon: I'll bet TRP has spent some mental energy on the 
>whole issue of Noah's issue.  It (meaning the whole "curse of Ham" 
>myth) goes partway towards understanding the foundations of European 
>racism contra Africans.
>-- 
>Xferen
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I think 'a might've meant Seth, not Shem.  
                     -j minnich