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The Book of Kings, the final book of the Mandaean Right Ginza, [3] refers to Noah's (or Shem's) [4] wife by the name Nuraita (or Nhuraitha, Anhuraita, among various other spellings). [5] There is some contradiction between texts, and some textual ambiguity, regarding which patriarch is married to Nuraita; additionally, Anhuraita appears to be a ...
The Construction of Noah's Ark. by Jacopo Bassano depicts all eight people said to be on the ark, including Noah's wife and the wives of his three sons. The wives aboard Noah's Ark were part of the family that survived the Deluge in the biblical Genesis flood narrative from the Bible.
Enoch (/ ˈ iː n ə k / ⓘ) [note 1] is a biblical figure and patriarch prior to Noah's flood, and the son of Jared and father of Methuselah. He was of the Antediluvian period in the Hebrew Bible. The text of the Book of Genesis says Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God.
Noah's narrative sets the prototype for many of the subsequent prophetic stories, which begin with the prophet warning his people and then the community rejecting the message and facing a punishment. Noah has several titles in Islam, based primarily on praise for him in the Quran, including "Trustworthy Messenger of God" ( 26:107 ) and ...
The Book of Noah is thought to be a non-extant Old Testament pseudepigraphal work, attributed to Noah. It is quoted in several places in another pseudepigraphal work, 1 Enoch, [1] and is mentioned in another, the Book of Jubilees. [2] There have also been fragments attributed to a Book of Noah in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Sefer haYashar [8] and Genesis Rabba [9] both agree that Noah's wife was called Naamah. According to the latter, she was the sister of Tubal-cain (Genesis 4:21); according to the former, she was a daughter of Enoch, and Noah married her when he was 498 years old.
Naamah (Hebrew: נַעֲמָה – Naʿămā) is mentioned in the Bible, in Genesis 4:22, as a descendant of Cain.She was the only mentioned daughter of Lamech and Zillah and their youngest mentioned child; her brother was Tubal-cain, while Jabal and Jubal were her half-brothers, sons of Lamech's other wife Adah.
Shem (/ ʃ ɛ m /; Hebrew: שֵׁם Šēm; Arabic: سَام, romanized: Sām) [a] is one of the sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5–11 [1] and 1 Chronicles 1:4). The children of Shem are Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram, in addition to unnamed daughters. Abraham, the patriarch of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, is one of the descendants of ...