Curse of Ham unsupported by the text of the Bible, emphatically pointing out that Noah's curse fell not upon all descendants of Ham, but only on the descendants of Canaan, and asserting that it was fulfilled when Canaan was occupied by both Semites (Israel) and Japhetites. The commentary further notes that Canaanites ceased to exist politically after the Third Punic War (149 BC), and that their current descendants are thus unknown and scattered among all peoples. Robert Boyle—a seventeenth-century scientist who also was a theologian and a devout Christian—refuted the idea that blackness was a Curse of Ham, in his book "Experiments and
Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible before its second edition which appeared in 1893. Later editions include a supplement entitled "The Canon of Scripture" by R. K. Harrison and Everett F. Harrison. Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible is a concordance to the Bible compiled by Robert Young first published in 1879. British editions and American editions are numbered differently. These have the title "Analytical Concordance to the Holy Bible". These have the title "Analytical Concordance to the Bible". The 20th American edition, first published in 1910, corresponds largely to the British 7th edition revised by W. B. Stevenson, but