"Uncovering someone's nakedness" is a common OT euphemism for sexual inappropriateness. And the punishment or curse of humiliation in exchange for humiliation seems quite fair, even if they were laughing at Noah's bare ass not putting anything into it. Honoring your parents is the "first commandment with promise", of longevity and prosperity, e.g. "he who curses father or mother his lamp shall be but out in obscure darkness".
That may well be the case, albeit that the entire Noah narrative is cribbed from older Mesopotamian sources, as is ubiquitous throughout the OT and the NT. But here, you dodge the moral question of whether the descendants of Canaan should be eternally condemned to slavery. And, as you know Christians expanded this to the descendants of Ham, who were declared to be the blacks of Africa. Obviously, you are a 'true believer' who is critical of those who deviate in the name of your god, however, it is clear to those unburdened with such hysterical superstition that Christianity and Judaism are merely cynical veils for the elite "shepherds" of humanity to fatten their flocks before fleecing them and/or taking them to market for slaughter.
As for commandments, even these were cribbed from earlier sources, just like Psalms 104 is clearly the Hymn to the Aten.
And if you define Semites as "descendants of Shem", then no, they weren't Semitic. By your definition Japanese are "Semitic" in that they are Asiatic, so I guess Hitler wasn't a total anti-Semite. But Jews who dislike Asians would be ...
And yes, the European "Jews" who infest the Holy Land" are Gentile converts to the religion "Judaism" not Hebrews, that's probably why they persecute the actual Jews native to the Holy Land.
And if you define Semites as "descendants of Shem", then no, they weren't Semitic.
This is what I would term "special pleading". The Arabs, supposedly descended from Ishmael, are acknowledged to be Semites and they speak a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew, and Phoenician (Canaanite). The latter's heavenly god, over their Earthly pantheon, was named El. This El was then purposely conflated with his son Yahweh, one god of indigenous Canaanite localities. Yahweh had a wife named Asherah.
I know plenty of Ashkenazi Jews and they are no better or worse than the rest of humanity. Shame on you for such racism. They are merely and unfortunately playing out the cultural identity roles that were foisted on their ancestors, just like the original Jews.
That's not to say that certain elements of this Holy Land population are not complicit in what is going on today, but you of all people should thank them for it, as the second Third Temple must be built, so that it can be gloriously destroyed by Jesus? As revealed by Black in his
The Transfer Agreement, the Jabotinskyites (today's Likud) colluded with the Nazis in the formation of Israel, which was also abetted by the Rothschilds, The Jewish Agency, Britain, and the Vatican. All in the service of your god and his mysterious globalizing ways. No modern Israel, no Futurist Apocalypse.
By the same token the indigenous peoples of the world might claim the same infestation is going on globally via rapacious white Christians and the
hofjuden. Look at the trillion dollar mineral exploitation plan of Afghanistan that Erik Prince has proposed, modeled upon the British East India Company. The
Conquest of the Americas, was even modeled upon the OT Conquest, however, like you they took the narrative literally in that the new 'Canaanites' should indeed be exterminated wherever possible. And they did so under the watchful aegis of the Euro-royals, who played the same general role as the pharaohs did to the original Conquest. I know, I know, your Bible denies this and propagandizes that the Israelites were rebels. So spare us the sanctimony.
As you are probably aware, some people believe that Hitler was 1/4 Rothschilds, Bubba Clinton was an illegitimate Rockefeller, and Donald J. Trump is also such a low branch member of the descended Hasmonean "priestly family" as Barbiero terms it. But in any case, Canaanites were Semites, no ifs, ands, or butts. The Danites were the displaced Greek Danoi, and Shlomo Sand, in his
The Invention of the Jewish People argues well that the original 'Jews' (as opposed to Israelite Canaanites) were the Peleset Philistines, who we now know as the Palestinians.
As for bronze-age social constructs, they are just that. Just because God communicated with/to these people does not constitute a divine endorsement of all that they think or do.
Agreed. I address this in my first article in my OT series where it is well known that religion has gone through several stages of evolution, in conjunction with the development of civilizations from hunter-gatherers (Old School Preppers IMHO) to the imperial (expansionist) Persians and Romans, and what developmentally flowed from them till today. Thus we generally go from animism, to polytheism, pantheism, and monotheism(s), each becoming successively intolerant of 'the other' as suited the needs of the respective temporal rulers
du jour whose related priests foisted these religions on us (as revelation), including yours. And now the new revelation (aka apocalypse) is unfolding upon us. The nonconformists to the new global paradigm will be cleansed from the Earth and everyone else will live happily ever after, singing kumbaya. Till the next comet strike that is.
The Israelites, alone among cultures of the time, were not allowed to rape/fornicate with, blind, maim, murder, or permanently own a slave (without his acquiescence), or have one from among their own people, or kidnap someone to enslave him (the death penalty under the Mosaic law). Why not? Because YHWH told them how NOT to "beat the slaves".
Indeed slavery of old, yet even before Israel was different. In Sumeria one became bonded due to the exigencies of life, and one could buy their way out, and even own their own home during bondage. The Bible states that an Israelite must treat his enslaved brother better than the other slaves, but I don't think it says anything about an enslaved sister.
BTW, do you support the reinstition of Biblical slavery?
And also to Genesis: it is theological messaging about how things (sun, moon, stars, sky, sea, etc.) are not "gods" but things, set in Egyptian and Mesopotamian motifs in order to refute them, not a scientific treatise on the origin of the cosmos, or a divine endorsement of the bronze age "flat earth" perception. But those things aren't gods according to science either, now are they...
Well, if you want to 'believe' this, then OK. But it all begs the question of exactly what a 'god' is, or was, in the first place. The later pagan priesthoods, at least, would laugh at most contemporary characterizations of them, as only the
hoi polloi then might have grant them such a nature. The narrative actions of the gods of such as Greek mythos explained the forces of the natural world and the cosmos. These people understood metaphor, and now we are stuck under the tyranny of the literalists.
But, ironic that the Hellenized Jews of the Maccabee era, at least, became highly involved with Zodiacal astrology. Oh yes, and that Ezekiel guy.
