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Old 06-02-2013, 05:01 PM   #1
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Google leads to new DSS reading on the curse of Ham

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The website features very high resolution photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls using a special camera, which not only records the condition of the actual scrolls to help preserve them, but also brings to light for the first time faded and hidden letters.

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The word “El” appears close to the phrase “tent of Shem,” and might indicate that the intent was to “Hashem” as a synonym for God. By comparing this text with another of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the scholars have come up with another interpretation. The scholars believe that the word “tent” can be interpreted as “land,” and that the text may mean that Hashem ‏(God‏) lives in the “land of Shem.” Thus, Canaan invaded a land that was not his, and that was the reason his descendants were exiled, not because of his father’s sin.

This interpretation is also known from the Apocryphal Book of Jubilees, which survived in the Ethiopian sacred language of Gez and in Greek. There, it also states that Canaan’s sin was in taking the land in a manner different than the way Noah had intended to divide it, ignoring his brothers’ warning not to do so. “Whoever wrote this text knew this interpretation from the Book of Jubilees,” Ariel said. The conclusion is that this alternative tradition to the biblical version was common in the Judean Desert in Second Temple times and later disappeared.
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This might be better to read

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/...emium-1.527210
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You can sign up for premium content at no charge if you only view 10 or fewer articles a month (I think - some limit like that.)
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Thanks Toto, but I've seriously had enough of having to sign up for things. I can imagine at some future moment having to sign up for free air or to use an outlet of the national lavatory association. There are enough strings attached to me now that I have the sensation of being in a puppet show.
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Here's a pretty thorough discussion on the Failed Messiah blog:

Google solves ancient mystery
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