Ham (son of Noah) Ham (son of Noah) Ham, according to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis, was a son of Noah and the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. Ham's descendants are interpreted by Flavius Josephus and others as having populated Africa and adjoining parts of Asia. The Bible refers to Egypt as "the land of Ham" in Psalm 78:51; 105:23,27; 106:22; 1 Chronicles 4:40. Since the 17th century a number of suggestions have been made that relate the name "Ham" to a Hebrew word for "burnt", "black" or "hot", to the Egyptian word "ḥm" for "servant" or the
Book of Noah En. 106-107 On these chapters may have followed Eth. En. 6-11., 65-69:25, 60, 41:3-8, 43-44, 54:7-55:2; Jubilees 7:26-39, 10:1-15. The Hebrew "Book of Noah", a later work, is printed in Adolf Jellinek's "Bet ha-Midrasch", 3:155-156, and translated into German in Rönsch, "Das Buch der Jubiläen", 385-387. It is based on the part of the above Book of Noah which is preserved in the "Book of Jubilees". The portion of this Hebrew work which is derived from the older work is reprinted in Charles's "Ethiopic Version of the Hebrew Book of Jubilees", p. 179. James Charlesworth writes (footnotes used for clarity)