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
Church of the Resurrection of the Widow's Son Church of the Resurrection of the Widow's Son The Church of the Resurrection of the Widow's Son () or simply the Church of the Son of the Widow, is the name given to a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the village of Nein in northern Israel. Is dedicated to the resurrection of the son of the widow it refers to one of the miracles of Jesus described in the Bible. Church of the Resurrection of the widow's son is in the central part of the village Na'in, on the northern slope of Mount Moreh