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Noah's wife is one of the four wives aboard Noah's Ark. While nameless in the Bible (Genesis 4:22; Gen. 7:7), apocryphal literature lists 103 variations of her name and personality. While nameless in the Bible (Genesis 4:22; Gen. 7:7), apocryphal literature lists 103 variations of her name and personality.
Another (fol. 14) includes one wife, presumably Noah's, named Sphiarphara. [15] A Middle English illustrated version of Genesis dating to the 13th century also gives Puarphara as Noah's wife. In medieval mystery plays Noah's wife is often portrayed as a comical harridan who refuses to board the arc and has to be dragged into it by force [16]
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.
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.
Mahalalel (Hebrew: מַהֲלַלְאֵל, romanized: Mahălalʾēl, Ancient Greek: Μαλελεήλ, Maleleḗl) is an Antediluvian patriarch named in the Hebrew Bible. He is mentioned in the Sethite genealogy as the grandfather of Enoch and subsequently the ancestor of Noah.
The Daughters of Zelophehad (illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster). In the Talmud and the Zohar the reference to Zelophehad having "died in his own sin" is used to equate him with the man executed for gathering sticks on Shabbat, [12] [13] but Sifri Zutta says that it cannot be known if he was.
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 ...
Noah's contemporaries replied that if a flood did come, it would come only on Noah's father's house. Rabbi Abba taught that God said that one herald arose for God in the generation of the Flood—Noah. But they despised him and called him a contemptible old man. [94] Noah's Ark (illustration from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle)