Noah had one wife. Genesis mentions her in five verses, always in a list beside her husband and their sons, and never gives her name. She was one of the eight people saved in the ark: Noah, his wife, their three sons and the sons’ three wives. Later readers filled the silence. The Book of Jubilees calls her Emzara. One rabbi in Genesis Rabbah identified her with Naamah, a woman Genesis names in Cain’s family. And the mystery plays of…

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