Matriarch of the Ark: 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 Godโ€™s instructions to Noah.

Wife of Noah

To date, anthropologists have collected between 250 to 300 such flood stories from various cultures.

The 17th Day of Iyar

A tale thousands of years old, pointing to a time even farther back, can be difficult to envision. How real, how concrete, is this story? What are we to take away from it? How important is it to reconcile every detail with what we know now, concerning geography, carbon dating, evidence of people groups, and timelines that donโ€™t seem to dovetail with Genesisโ€™ account of a world-wide cataclysmic event?

Forty Days and Forty Nights

The Flood, in whatever iteration, is a story told round the world. All of humankind seems to have a shared memory of Godโ€™s judgment by water. Ancient accounts of a destructive flood can be found in every corner of the planet. Tribes in new Guinea, India, Brazil, China, Norway, Mexico, and even First Nation peoples from North America all have a flood story.

Tsunami

The difference between Noah and everyone else was merely their response to Godโ€™s grace. Everybody else scoffed, but Noah took God seriously. The difference between those who were saved and those who died in the flood was the difference between being in the ark and being outside it.