Word: japheth
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...beard," reads a medieval Irish description. "The second ... beardless and ruddy-complexioned ... the third, black-skinned and heavily bearded." Scholars have suggested that the mix either was intended to underscore Christianity's world-wide ambitions or referred back to an earlier diverse threesome, Noah's sons Shem, Ham and Japheth...
Still, Act II is undeniably the stronger of the acts, for it showcases more vocal talent and retells a more unfamiliar story, the saga of Noah's son Japheth and his love for Yonah, a member of the race of Cain. The voices of Noah (Ryan Shrime '00), Mama Noah (Ashley McCants '02), Yonah (Jody Flader '02), and Japheth (Jason McNeely '00) fill the room admirably and beautifully complement each other...
McKissic said that all humanity is descended from Noah and his three sons: Ham, Shem and Japheth. Ham and Japheth were ancestors of Africans and Europeans, while Shem's descendants became the Semites, he said...
...first 2,000 years of civilization,"McKissic said, "the sons of Ham were dominant.From 2350 B.C. to 350 B.C., the Semitic peopleruled. Now the descendants of Japheth are ruling.But their time is about up. What happens next?Will the sons of Ham rule again...
...ignores every dramatic basic. It lacks conflict. Its characters are unreal and undeveloped, and it fosters no affinity between the playgoer and the players. Noah's three sons are, respectively, a lout (Shem), a lecher (Ham) and a moral prig (Japheth). Noah straightens out their biblically unrecorded sexual hang-ups like a pre-lst century marriage counselor and spars in spurious stage-generation-gap fashion with his youngest son, who is skeptical about the Divine Establishment...