page_title: Noach (parsha)
section_title: Modern
hierarchical_section_title: Noach (parsha) / Further reading / Modern
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Mary Shelley
context_page_description: Noach, Noiach, Nauach, Nauah, or Noah is the second weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 6:9–11:32. The parashah tells the stories of the Flood and Noah's Ark, of Noah's subsequent drunkenness and cursing of Canaan, and of the Tower of Babel.
  The parashah has the most verses of any weekly Torah portion in the Book of Genesis. It is made up of 6,907 Hebrew letters, 1,861 Hebrew words, 153 verses, and 230 lines in a Torah Scroll. In the Book of Genesis, Parashah Miketz has the most letters, Parashah Vayeira has the most words, and Parashah Vayishlach has an equal number of verses as Parashah Noach.
  Jews read it on the second Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in October or early November.
context_section_description: Isaac Abravanel. Commentary on the Torah. Italy, between 1492 and 1509. In, e.g., Abarbanel: Selected Commentaries on the Torah: Volume 1: Bereishis/Genesis. Translated and annotated by Israel Lazar, pages 54–81. Brooklyn: CreateSpace, 2015. ISBN 978-1-5076-8616-4.
  Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno. Commentary on the Torah. Venice, 1567. In, e.g., Sforno: Commentary on the Torah. Translation and explanatory notes by Raphael Pelcovitz, pages 40–61. Brooklyn: Mesorah Publications, 1997. ISBN 0-89906-268-7.
  Moshe Alshich. Commentary on the Torah. Safed, circa 1593. In, e.g., Moshe Alshich. Midrash of Rabbi Moshe Alshich on the Torah. Translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk, volume 1, pages 62–91. New York, Lambda Publishers, 2000. ISBN 965-7108-13-6.
  Menasseh ben Israel. El Conciliador (The Conciliator). Amsterdam, 1632. In The Conciliator of R. Manasseh Ben Israel: A Reconcilement of the Apparent Contradictions in Holy Scripture: To Which Are Added Explanatory Notes, and Biographical Notices of the Quoted Authorities. Translated by Elias Hiam Lindo, pages 31–35, 37–49. London, 1842. Reprinted by, e.g., Nabu Press, 2010. ISBN 1-148-56757-7.
  Avraham Yehoshua Heschel. Commentaries on the Torah. Cracow, Poland, mid 17th century. Compiled as Chanukat HaTorah. Edited by Chanoch Henoch Erzohn. Piotrkow, Poland, 1900. In Avraham Yehoshua Heschel. Chanukas HaTorah: Mystical Insights of Rav Avraham Yehoshua Heschel on Chumash. Translated by Avraham Peretz Friedman, pages 41–47. Southfield, Michigan: Targum Press/Feldheim Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-56871-303-7.
  Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, part 3, chapters 34, 38. England, 1651. Reprint edited by C. B. Macpherson, pages 430–31, 486. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Classics, 1982. ISBN 0-14-043195-0.
  Baruch Spinoza. Theologico-Political Treatise, chapters 6, 8. Amsterdam, 1670. In, e.g., Baruch Spinoza. Theological-Political Treatise. Translated by Samuel Shirley, pages 78–79, 106–07. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, second edition, 2001. ISBN 0-87220-608-4.
  Chaim ibn Attar. Ohr ha-Chaim. Venice, 1742. In Chayim ben Attar. Or Hachayim: Commentary on the Torah. Translated by Eliyahu Munk, volume 1, pages 92–117. Brooklyn: Lambda Publishers, 1999. ISBN 965-7108-12-8.
  Moses Mendelssohn.Jerusalem, § 1. Berlin, 1783. In Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism. Translated by Allan Arkush; introduction and commentary by Alexander Altmann, page 70. Hanover, New Hampshire: Brandeis University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-87451-264-6.
  Mary Shelley. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, chaper 15. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818. (alluding to Genesis 1:26–27; 5:1; and 9:6, the creature tells Victor Frankenstein, “God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.”).
  "Mary Don't You Weep." United States, 19th century.
  Emily Dickinson. Poem 48 (Once more, my now bewildered Dove). Circa 1858. Poem 403 (The Winters are so short —). Circa 1862. Poem 1473 (We talked with each other about each other). Circa 1879. In The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, pages 27, 192, 623. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1960. ISBN 0-316-18414-4.
  George Eliot. Adam Bede, chapter 30. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1859. Reprinted, e.g., edited by Carol A. Martin, page 295. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (Dinah writes Seth, paraphrasing Genesis 7:11, “the rains that have fallen, as if the windows of heaven were opened again”).
  Samuel David Luzzatto (Shadal). Commentary on the Torah. Padua, 1871. In, e.g., Samuel David Luzzatto. Torah Commentary. Translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk, volume 1, pages 100–36. New York: Lambda Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978-965-524-067-2.
  Malbim. The Torah and the Commandments. Warsaw, 1874–80. In, e.g., Malbim: Rabbenu Meir Leibush ben Yechiel Michel. Malbim : Rabbenu Meir Leibush ben Yechiel Michel : commentary on the Torah. Translated by Zvi Faier; Israel: M.P. Press/Hillel Press, 1982.
  Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter. Se
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