Noah's wife

Noah's wife is nameless in the Bible (Genesis 4:22; Gen. 7:7). According to F. L. Utley,[1] apocryphal literature lists 103 variations of her name and personality.

The most popular candidate is Naamah, the daughter of Lamech.

In Mandaeism

The Book of Kings, the final book of the Mandaean Right Ginza,[2] refers to Noah's (or Shem's)[3] wife by the name Nuraita (or Nhuraitha, Anhuraita, among various other spellings).[4] There is some contradiction between texts, and some textual ambiguity, regarding which patriarch is married to Nuraita; additionally, Anhuraita appears to be a portmanteau of Nuraita and Anhar, the wives of Noah and Shem.[5]

See also

References
  1. Utley, Francis Lee (1941). "The One Hundred and Three Names of Noah's Wife". Speculum. 16 (4): 426–452. doi:10.2307/2852842. JSTOR 2852842. S2CID 163797953.
  2. Häberl, Charles (2022). The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World: A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. doi:10.3828/9781800856271 (inactive 4 September 2023). ISBN 978-1-80085-627-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of September 2023 (link)
  3. "Book Nineteen: The Deluge". Ginza Rabba. Vol. Right Volume. Translated by Al-Saadi, Qais; Al-Saadi, Hamed (2nd ed.). Germany: Drabsha. 2019. pp. 203–204. [Note: this book, or a larger text containing it, is numbered book 18 in some other editions.]
  4. Gelbert, Carlos (2011). Ginza Rba. Sydney: Living Water Books. ISBN 9780958034630.
  5. Lupieri, Edmondo (2008). "The Mandaeans and the Myth of Their Origins". In Macuch, Rudolf (ed.). Und das Leben ist siegreich! / And Life is Victorious. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 127–144. ISBN 978-3-447-05178-1.

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