October 19, 2006

Back Seat  

From a WaPo article about Donald Rumsfeld:

In the Bible, the high priest would transfer the sins of the people onto a goat, and, as it was written, "the goat shall carry all the sins of the people into a land where no one lives, and the man shall let it loose in the wilderness."

(The word for scapegoat in Hebrew means, literally, "into hell.")



Comments
Haggai  {October 20, 2006}

I'll have to check that Hebrew translation anecdote to see if it's accurate, though it does sound believable.


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