From now on when we read “for it is you that I have seen righteous before me in this generation” (7:1) take a minute to be in awe of Noah, the Torah’s most underrated transformational hero.

Noah, now 600, his wife, his sons, their wives and two of every living creature were to enter. After 7 days, the flood came for 40 days and 40 nights. The water prevailed on the earth 150 days.

Noah tale just doesn’t float, even with a Bible neophyte. April 6, 2014 at 3:17 a.m. ... is a central character in the Noah story, Genesis 6-9. And he’s got a whole lot to say, ...

Recorded in the Bible’s first book of Genesis, the Noah’s Ark story spans chapters 6 through 9. Due to its length, we focus on Genesis 6 and 7 and, next week, chapters 8 and 9.

Instead, every single one of Noah’s actions fulfills a command given him by the dominant character, God. When it comes to Noah, the Qur’anic depiction as exemplar of obedience is on point.

To be sure, this is not the genial, grandfatherly Noah charmingly evoked by John Huston when he led an orderly assemblage of animals into the ark two-by-two in his 1965 epic The Bible. Crowe’s ...

For a lifelong Bible geek and lover of movie-making and storytelling like me, Noah is a rare gift: a blend of epic spectacle, startling character drama and creative reworking of Scripture and ...

Jennifer Connelly Says Religious Leaders Are Now Embracing ‘Noah’ (Video) "The controversy that was generated [was] by people who were speculating [and] hadn't seen the film yet," said the ...