Hers was a desperate time, the worst in human history
… and only a remnant would survive
This series of Bible studies seeks to retell the stories of women who were divinely called and empowered to do great things. Many of them rose to the occasion, and a few very famously did not. Often, the tragedies and triumphs in their lives are missed, and their stories are told from perspectives other than with the honor and dignity they deserve.
After excavating their narratives from millennia of obfuscation, now meet the freshly restored, valiant, vivid (and sometimes villainous) women of the Bible.
The Wife of Noah
A shadowy figure, she is never mentioned by name, though she is spoken of five times throughout the Flood account and specifically included in God’s instructions to Noah.
This thirty-page book includes the retelling of the story about Noah’s wife, a fifteen-question Bible study, and link to a twenty-minute multi-media presentation of the account concerning the wife of Noah. She was quietly faithful in the building of the ark, provision for her family, and the care of her household—the immense watercraft that saved a remnant for the new world.
Imaginations have been gripped for thousands of years by the story of Noah.
- How long ago did this neolithic family live?
- What was the scope of the cataclysmic deluge described in their story?
- Was the building of the ark, the gathering of animals two-by-two, the repopulation of earth with only eight people an allegory?
- Is it metaphor?
- Is it literal?
Tribes in New Guinea, India, Brazil, China, Norway, Mexico, and North American First Nation peoples all have a flood story. Each story tells of a favored family (several stories mention eight people specifically) who survived on a boat. Two-thirds of the stories attribute the disaster to humankind’s wickedness. Over half end with the survivors landing on a mountain. To date, anthropologists have collected between 250 to 300 such flood stories from various cultures.
What is God teaching through such an iconic narrative?
What are we to come away with, regardless of how we interpret the ancient evidence for a world-wide, or more regional, flood?
And, who was Noah’s wife?
Why did the narrator make a point of including her at each important juncture of the Flood account? What was her role in the survival of this last remnant of earth’s inhabitants? And what can we take away from her story? The answers may surprise you.
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