Naked Bible 159: Noah’s Nakedness, the Sin of Ham, and the Curse of Canaan

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The episode of Noah’s drunkenness in Genesis 9 has long befuddled interpreters. One of Noah’s sons, Ham, commits some heinous crime against his father. Oddly, though, Ham is not the one cursed by his father. Instead, Ham’s son Canaan bears the wrath of Noah. This episode explores the traditional solutions to the interpretive confusion and offers an alternative based on recent research in the Hebrew text. Sources: John Sietze Bergsma and Scott Walker Hahn, "Noah's Nakedness and the Curse on Canaan," Journal of Biblical Literature 124:1 (2005): 25-40

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0:26.3	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast.
0:28.3	Episode 159, Noah's Nakedness, the sin of him and the curse of Canaan.
0:34.0	I'm the layman, Jerry Strickland.
0:35.8	He's a scholar, Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:37.3	Hey, Mike, how are you doing this week?
0:39.3	Pretty good.
0:40.3	How are you?
0:41.3	I'm doing good.
0:42.3	I'm excited for another good episode.
0:44.6	I like these topical episodes.
0:46.7	It's a nice break from the book, which we'll be voting very soon.
0:52.1	Maybe in the next couple of weeks or so, we'll post it up there so people can vote on the
0:56.2	next book that we get into.
0:57.7	But until then, I'm enjoying these topical episodes.
1:01.4	I think you're just looking forward to Noah's Nakedness here.
1:05.7	I think you got a mascot now.
1:07.8	Yeah.
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