Dr. Aryeh Amihay is a lecturer in the Dept of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on Judaism and Law. He holds a PhD in Religion from Princeton University. He co-edited the volume Noah and His Book(s) (SBL Press, 2010), and authored Theory and Practice in Essene Law (Oxford University Press, 2016).
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Unlike Adam, Noah is born like a regular human. Unlike Utnapishtim, the Mesopotamian flood hero, and Noah’s great-grandfather Enoch, Noah is mortal. In Second Temple times, new retellings of his story present Noah as something more than human, but in rabbinic tradition, the biblical image of the all too human Noah prevails.
Unlike Adam, Noah is born like a regular human. Unlike Utnapishtim, the Mesopotamian flood hero, and Noah’s great-grandfather Enoch, Noah is mortal. In Second Temple times, new retellings of his story present Noah as something more than human, but in rabbinic tradition, the biblical image of the all too human Noah prevails.
