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Let’s talk about the Flood. We all know the basic story: Noah, the Ark, the animals two-by-two. But what about the people who didn't make it? What about the sinners left behind? Ac...
We often picture him building, gathering animals, maybe arguing with his neighbors. But what about his personal life? It turns out, there's a story there, too, a very human story o...
We often picture it as a peaceful, almost idyllic scene. But imagine being cooped up in that ark, not knowing when the flood would end. Tensions would be high. Well, the legends te...
We all know the story: the animals, the flood, the rainbow. But what about the after the flood? What was Noah thinking, feeling? Did he get everything. Well, according to some fasc...
Noah, his family, and all the animals are finally stepping off the ark, blinking in the sunlight, the world utterly transformed. The very first thing Noah does? He builds an altar....
Take Noah, the righteous man who saved humanity from the flood. You’d think he’d be on a pretty straight path after that whole ordeal. But nope. The story takes a turn, and it invo...
And according to tradition, the land wasn't exactly empty when Jacob's sons were destined to inherit it. No, no. It was provisionally granted to a whole host of Canaanite nations: ...
He wasn't just some minor character in the background of history. According to Legends of the Jews, Louis Ginzberg's masterful compilation of rabbinic lore, Nimrod was something el...
It's a city that resonates through millennia, a place where, according to legend, the very ground remembers the most important moments in our shared past. Think about Abraham, read...
