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Genesis
7, 8, 9
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NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
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The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc. |
| The Blue Letter Bible's interlinear Hebrew text. 7:1-5, 11-18; 8:6-18; 9:8-13.
KJV, alternate versions, Hebrew text with concordance, commentaries. |
| The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition and
sermons: Genesis 7; Genesis 8; Genesis 9. |
| Bereshit
7: Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS. |
| Bereshit
8: Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS. |
| Bereshit
9: Massoretic, Hebrew, Aramaic, JPS. |
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
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Navigating the Bible: Text/Rabbinic commentary
and Divrei Torah. |
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Chapter VII of
The First Epistle to the Corinthians,
Clement of Rome (ca. 96). |
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Chapter CXXVII,
Dialogue With Trypho,
Justin Martyr. (c 160) |
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IV.XVI.1,
Adversus Haereses,
Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180) |
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Chapter II,
Adversus Judaeos,
Tertullian (c. 198) |
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III.4,
Stromata,
Clement of Alexandria (c 200) |
| Exegetical
Fragments, (Scroll down to SECTIONS II., III.) (pseudo?-) Hippolytus (c
210). |
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Chapter XXXVIII,
On the Soul,
Tertullian (c 210) |
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VI.7,
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Philocalia [anthology of
Origen prepared by St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen],
Origen. (c.230) |
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Book I, Chapter 4,
Ecclesiastical History,
Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 320). |
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From Calvin's Commentary on Genesis:
Genesis 7;
Genesis
8; Genesis 9. |
| From the Geneva Notes: Genesis 7;
Genesis 8;
Genesis 9. |
| From Matthew Henry's Commentary:
Genesis 7;
Genesis 8;
Genesis 9. |
| From Wesley's Notes:
Genesis 7;
Genesis
8; Genesis 9. |
| From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and
Brown, 1871):
Genesis
7; Genesis
8; Genesis
9. |
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| Contemporary References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
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Genesis 9:8-17, Studies on Old Testament texts from Series B, Ralph W.
Klein, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. |
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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"The Environment," Resources for Prophetic
Worship, Speaking to North Carolina Justice Issues, North Carolina Council
of Churches, 2005. |
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Genesis 9:8-17, Lent 1B,
The Old Testament Readings: Weekly Comments on the Revised Common
Lectionary, Howard Wallace Audrey Schindler, Morag Logan, Paul Tonson,
Lorraine Parkinson, Theological Hall of the Uniting Church, Melbourne,
Australia.
 | "As we begin to prepare for the
coming of Easter and its remembrance of the death and resurrection of
Jesus, we remember the effect of sin on all creation and we look for the
redemption of all that God has created – plants, animals, and humans as
well as the planet itself, not to mention the universe." |
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"When
God Was Green: The Original Eco-Covenant,"
The Journey with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin, Journey with
Jesus Foundation.
| "The scale and scope
of the Noahic covenant is as comprehensive and universal as the strained
efforts of the writer can describe it. God's covenant extended not only
to Noah, his family, and his descendants, but to 'all life on earth,'
'all living creatures of every kind,' and even more remarkably to "the
earth" itself (Genesis 9:13, 15, 17). God's original eco-covenant
extends throughout all time to all space." |
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Genesis 9:8-17, Lent 1B,
Commentary, Background, Insights from Literary Structure, Theological
Message, Ways to Present the Text. Anna Grant-Henderson, Uniting Church in
Australia. |
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"Noah's Covenant,"
Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com:
A Lectionary Resource for Catholics. |
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"Haftarah for the Rainbow Covenant," Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom
Center, 2003. |
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"TEVA: The Ark and the Word that Heal Us from the Flood," Rabbi Arthur
Waskow, The Shalom Center.
| "Teva, the word for the Ark that saved
the future from the Flood, is also the word for "word." As Noah could not
simply contemplate the Teva/Ark but had to enter it to save the creatures,
so we have been taught — by the Baal Shem Tov, for instance — that we
cannot simply mouth a Teva/word of prayer, but must ourselves go deep
within it, to save and heal ourselves." |
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"The Flood," Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center. |
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"When Bad
Things Happen to Bad People," Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman. Torah Commentary
at BeliefNet.
| "Contemplating the destruction of an
entire civilization is disturbing, and so it should be." |
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| "The
Flood," from the Biblical Studies Foundation.
| "The difference between Noah
and those who perished was their response to God’s grace. Those
who perished interpreted God’s grace as divine indifference. They
concluded that God neither cared nor troubled Himself at the
occasion of men’s sin." |
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| "The
Noahic Covenant: A New Beginning," from the Biblical
Studies Foundation.
| "The New Covenant, like the
Noahic, was initiated by God, and it was accomplished by Him. While
all flesh have benefited from the common grace of God promised in
the Noahic Covenant, only those who are ‘in Christ’ benefit from
the blessings of the New Covenant." |
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Parshah Noach, text, commentary & articles from Chassidic Masters,
sermons, etc from Chabad Lubavitch. |
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Parshas
Noach, Divrei Torah from The Project Genesis Torah Study. Index to numerous
Orthodox articles and studies on Genesis 6:9 - 11:32. |
| Parshat Noach,
articles and commentary by the Jewish Community of Atlanta, at The Torah From Dixie. |
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| Articles & Background:
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"Noah's Nakedness and the Curse on Canaan,"
John Sietze Bergsma and Scott Walker Hahn, Journal of Biblical Literature,
2005. |
| "Original
Dishonor: Noah's Curse and the Southern Defense of Slavery," Stephen R.
Haynes, Journal of Southern Religion, 2000.
| "While it is widely acknowledged that
the so-called curse of Ham was the religious rationale for slavery
utilized most often by antebellum southerners, scholarship has failed to
penetrate the depths of the curse’s American reception." |
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"The
Force of Forgiveness," Minka Shura
Sprague at The Living Pulpit.
| "We have known since Noah that
forgiveness is God's will." |
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"The
Theology of the Flood Narrative," David J.A. Clines, On the Way
to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967-1998.
| "Like the other narratives in
the 'primaeval history' (Gen. 111), the Flood narrative (Gen. 69)
displays a pattern of sin, judgment and mitigation of the penalty." |
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| Quotations
on the Many Views of Forgiveness from Leaders, Scientists &
Psychologists. At The Living Pulpit.
| "For me, this -- plus the content of
the Rainbow Covenant, which is about the cycles of time -- seedtime &
harvest, cold & heat, summer & winter, day & night -- is a strong hint
that what went wrong before the Flood was that human beings had screwed up
the temporal order, the cycles and rhythms of time and the seasons." |
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"The
Green Face of God: Christianity in an Age of Ecocide,"
Mark I. Wallace, Cross Currents 2000.
| "God the Spirit enfleshed in
creation, experiences the agony of an earth under siege. The Spirit
as the green face of God has become in our time the wounded God." |
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| "The
Craft of Forgiveness," L. Gregory Jones,
Loyola College. Theology Today, October, 1993.
| "If, and insofar as,
Christians are able to recognize that forgiveness is a way of life
rather than a simple word to assuage guilt, then we will be on our
way to embodying the wholeness of the gospel through mastering the
craft of forgiveness." |
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"Blood and Stone: Violence in the Bible & the Eye of the Illustrator,"
Barry Moser, CrossCurrents, Summer 2001.
| "...always, cohort and companion in
these mythic or sacred stories, there is the preponderance, the vehemence,
of violence." |
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| "Ballard
and the Black Sea: The Search For Noah's Flood," National
Geographic. |
| "Like
Noah, Like Utnapishtim: Dispatching Birds in Ancient Times," Jewish
Heritage Online Monthly, 2000.
| "The
bird-dispatching episode, which makes its appearance repeatedly in
numerous ancient flood myths, derives from the practice of mariners
in ancient times to take shore-sighting birds aboard and to release
them in order to determine their proximity to land" |
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"Current Critical Questions Concerning the 'Curse of Ham': Genesis 9:20-27,"
O Palmer Robertson, Journal of the Evangelical
Theological Society, 1998. |
| "Into
the Ark, a Modern Poem" by Wislawa Szymborska. From Jewish Heritage Online
Magazine's Topic of the Month: Rain. |
| Noah: Unsunk and Drunk as a Skunk,
from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible,
by Ronald L. Ecker. |
| Satan
and Noah planted a vineyard,
Jewish Heritage Online Monthly.
| The
origin of viticulture according to the midrash |
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"Apocalypse,"
program highlights, discussion & reflection questions and more from the Bill Moyers
PBS series Genesis: A Living Conversation.
| "Was Noah a bystander --
someone who stood by and did nothing to help others -- or a survivor -- someone who
suffered but managed to live? Or is he both? Or neither?" |
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| Shem: The First of the Semites,
from And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible,
by Ronald L. Ecker. |
| "The Old and New
Challenges of Reading Noah in the Christian Tradition," Dr. Christopher M.
Leighton, Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies Electronic
Library.
| "Underlying the typological
reading of Noah is a supersessionism, a theology of displacement
which asserts that the church has replaced the synagogue, and this
outlook is far more pervasive than we like to admit in this era of
political correctness." |
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| "The
Seven Commandments of the Sons of Noah," Moshe Greenberg, in
Jewish Heritage
Online Monthly's Topic of the Month, "Seven."
| "Thus, not only are all humans
as Adamites a single family, precious in God's sight, but by observance of the universal
moral laws laid upon the Noahites they may be perfectly reconciled with
God and enjoy the ultimate bliss." |
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| Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Bergsma, John Sietze, and Scott Walker
Hahn,
"Noah's Nakedness and the Curse of Canaan (Genesis 9:20-27)," Journal
of Biblical Literature, 2005. |
| Cohn, Robert L., "Negotiating (with) the Natives:
Ancestors and Identity in Genesis," Harvard Theological Review,
2003.
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| Gnuse, Robert Karl,
"A Process Theological Interpretation of the Primeval History in Genesis
2-11," Horizons, 2002. |
| Landy, Francis, "Noah's Ark and Mrs.
Monkey," Biblical Interpretation, 2007.
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| Mason, Steven D., "Another Flood?
Genesis 9 and Isaiah's Broken Eternal Covenant," Journal for the
Study of the Old Testament, 2007.
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| Sadler, Rodney,
"Can a Cushite Change His Skin? Cushites, Racial Othering, and the Hebrew
Bible," Interpretation, 2006. |
| Shaviv, Samuel,
"The Polytheistic Origins of the Biblical Flood Narrative," Vetus
Testamentum, 2004. |
| Sparks, Kenton L., "Enūma Elish
and Priestly Mimesis: Elite Emulation in Nascent Judaism," Journal of
Biblical Literature, 2007.
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| Van Wolde, Ellen,
"A Text-Semantic Study of the Hebrew Bible, Illustrated with Noah and Job,"
Journal of Biblical Literature, 1994. (Section on "Job and His Wife"
begins on page 31.) |
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| Reviews:
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Review: Stephen R. Haynes, Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of
American Slavery. Oxford University Press, 2002. Review by Dexter D.
Callender
in SBL's Review of
Biblical Literature. |
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| Sermons: |
| With Children:
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"Noah's Ark,"
"A Rainbow
Promise," Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons),
coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts. |
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"Noah's Ark:
The Great Flood,"
"Noah's Ark:
Rainbows & Promises," Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com. |
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"Rain!
Rain! Rain!" Linda Edwards, The Children's Chapel. |
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"The Rainbow Is God's
Promise to Noah," Sunday School
Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc. |
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"God's Covenant,"
children's study, puzzles, coloring sheet, etc. Higher Praise Christian
Center. |
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"Crossword on Genesis 7,"
"Word Search on
Genesis 8,"
Don Crownover's
Bible Puzzles. |
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On
Noah's Ark Coloring Mural, Jan Brett. |
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"Noah and the Great Flood," online
computer java-based coloring pages from Grace Baptist Church of Feeding
Hill. |
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Genesis 9:13,
memory verse activity, MSSS Crafts and Resources for Bible Stories. |
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| Drama:
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| Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
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Clip Art, Julius
Schnoor von Carolsfeld woodcuts, World Mission Collection, Wisconsin
Evangelical Lutheran Synod. |
| Commercial Site:
The Work of the People - Genesis 9 - Films/Visual Liturgy based on RCL
texts. |
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Go Forth, Reverend Fun Cartoon, gospelcom.net. Check for printing
permissions at right-hand side of destination page. |
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Troubled Waters,
Family Trip, After Eden Cartoons, Dan Lietha,
Answers in Genesis. |
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| Hymns and Music:
| Hymns, midi files, scores at Blue Letter Bible/Cyber
Hymnal:
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| At Digital Hymnal (midi files, guitar chords, karaoke
files, projection text):
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| Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's
Art Index:
| Noah
(Ark, Rainbow, etc) |
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| Movies scenes with the following themes,
listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
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| Study links and resources for the Book of Genesis |
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