Why Israel is the land of Kanaan!

Why is Israel referred to as the land of Kanaan and who was Kanaan? This question has finally been explained in a physical proof discovered on a fragment photograph of The Dead Sea Scrolls found in cave #4. The opening lines of orthodox Jewish daily prayer beg the question of the verse;

Remember His covenant forever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations; the covenant which He made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac, He established it for Jacob as a statute, for Israel as an everlasting covenant, stating “To you I shall give the land of Kanaan” -the portion of your inheritance, when you were few, very few, and strangers in it.

זִכְרוּ נִפְלְאותָיו אֲשֶׁר עָשה. מפְתָיו וּמִשְׁפְּטֵי פִיהוּ:

זֶרַע יִשרָאֵל עַבְדּו. בְּנֵי יַעֲקב בְּחִירָיו:

הוּא ה' אֱלהֵינוּ. בְּכָל הָאָרֶץ מִשְׁפָּטָיו:

זִכְרוּ לְעולָם בְּרִיתו. דָּבָר צִוָּה לְאֶלֶף דּור:

אֲשֶׁר כָּרַת אֶת אַבְרָהָם. וּשְׁבוּעָתו לְיִצְחָק:

וַיַּעֲמִידֶהָ לְיַעֲקב לְחק. לְיִשרָאֵל בְּרִית עולָם:

לֵאמר. לְךָ אֶתֵּן אֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן. חֶבֶל נַחֲלַתְכֶם:

בִּהְיותְכֶם מְתֵי מִסְפָּר. כִּמְעַט וְגָרִים בָּהּ:

What is meant by the portion of your inheritance? The strange, stylistic reference to Kanaan as the land promised to Israel is also explained by the recent Dead Sea Scrolls discovery. What was previously interpreted by mainstream theologians as the “tent of Shem” Genesis (9:27) is now proven to mean the “land of Shem” and what a huge difference it makes.

Noah had three sons Shem, Ham and Yafeth, each received an inheritence. The discovery proves that land granted to Shem included the “portion of your inheritance” specifically set aside for Israel, but occupied by Kanaan when they “were few, very few, and strangers in it”. The explanation finally resolves a logical reading of the line - “To you I shall give the land of Kanaan”.  Here “you” conclusively means Jacob-Israel.

Ham had incestuous relations with his mother, Noah's wife (Ki Teitzei 23:1, shares Haftorah with Noah), the product of that relationship Kanaan was cursed. When Noah found out he was devestated, became drunk in his tent and cursed Kanaan forever. Talmud Sanhedrin 108b states Ham copulated on the Ark against Noah's order of celibacy. Ham’s act was judged antithetical to Noah's moral law and it set the standard for permissible incest among Egyptian leaders following Ham or Khem. 

Mitzrayim (after whom Egypt was named) and his half brother Kanaan (Kanaan was Ham's son - Genesis 9:18) hated Shem, who had received Noahs blessing. In defiance, Ham desired Kanaan occupy the land of Shem, which would retrospectively justify his dastardly act. Ham bequeathed Egypt to his son Mitzrayim and they both backed Kanaan with military force to usurp the inheritence of Shem.

Abraham was Shem’s direct descendant as such he was in line to receive the continual passage of rights to Shem’s land. Further, Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. By the same legal standard Ishmael was born from a mother, a descendant of Ham who operated as surrogate for Abraham’s wife Sarah who banished them and relinquished any rights Ishmael had to ever inherit Abrahams land. This is an essential legal proof of Israel’s continuity, through Isaac on the land and its indigenous right!