Noah was not "Jewish" -- this word is derived from Judah, one of Jacob's (Israel's) sons.
Nor was Noah a "Semite" -- this word is derived from one of Noah's sons, Shem, who is one of the Jews' forefathers.
This doesn't negate Noah's special relationship with God, who recognized him as a just man.
2006-08-16 05:33:13
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answer #1
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answered by Suzanne: YPA 7
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Noah was not Jewish. He was a gentile. THAT is why the Noahide laws (the first commandments which were seven in numbers) were created before Moses came to Israel to free them and gave them The Ten Commandments. Seven of these were already revealed to Noah!!
2006-08-16 12:33:04
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answered by NQV 4
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People have a misconception that everybody in the old testament were jews.That is far from the fact.The concept of judaism didn't even come till after moses(pbuh) led the children of Israel out of Egypt.Noah was not a jew.There was no such thing as a jew during his time.Jews were called that because they lived in jerusalem(when you say jerusalem, you can hear jew in it).Jews from jerusalem.Americans from america.Same thing.In islam, they(prophets of the old testament) were considered hanifs.That means that they simply obeyed no GOD but GOD.It is called hanifa.That was the religion of noah(pbuh), enoch(pbuh), abraham(pbuh), and many others of the old scripture.The first 5 books of the bible(torah) did not even come till after moses(pbuh).Those are his books.Those are his scriptures.The whole adam and eve situation.It was his revelation.It is believed that moses(pbuh) is the one that all the prophets visited of the past.Even muhammad(pbuh) was visited by moses(pbuh) on his ascention to the heavens.For GOD chose him(moses) and spoke directly.It can not be found that Noah(pbuh) was jewish because he was not.You can read what GOD instucted him to do and Noah(pbuh) obeyed.That was the path of a hanif.GOD chose them.And they are not jews.
2006-08-16 12:45:37
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answered by Mitchell B 4
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Son of Lamech and the ninth in descent from Adam. In the midst ofabounding corruption he alone was "righteous and blameless in his generations" and "walked with God" (Gen. vi. 9). Hence, when all his contemporaries were doomed to perish by the divine judgment in punishment for their sins, he "found grace in the eyes of the Lord" (ib. vi. 8). When he was about five hundred years old his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, were born (ib. v. 32). One hundred years after this the command came to him from God to make a great vessel or ark, three hundred cubits in length, in which he and his family were to find safety from the waters of a great flood. This deluge was to destroy all living things except such as should be brought into the ark before the coming of the waters. Hence, besides his wife, and his sons and their wives, eight persons in all, a pair of every species of living thing was taken into the ark (ib. vi. 13-21). Another account (ib. vii. 1-3) states that of the clean animals seven of each kind were thus preserved.
Noah fulfilled the command, and on the tenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of his life he and his family and the living creatures entered into the vessel. Seven days thereafter "all the fountains of the abyss were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened" (ib. vii. 6-11, 13-16). For forty days the rain fell; the ark floated and drifted in fifteen cubits of water; the high mountains were covered; and every living thing not sheltered in the vessel perished from the earth. For one hundred and fifty days the waters prevailed (ib. vii. 17-24). At the end of that period the vessel rested upon the "mountains of Ararat" (ib. viii. 3, 4).
2006-08-16 12:32:02
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answered by haha 4
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Noah was not Jewish he was a Hebrew
2006-08-16 12:47:06
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answered by Anonymous
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if noah was jewish he would have asked all the animals to pay for the boatride
2006-08-16 12:31:01
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answered by XXX 2
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Then the Jewish God would be real. Yeah, like i didn't know that.
2006-08-16 12:31:32
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answered by ? 1
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they need to make an ADD version of the bible
2006-08-16 12:42:38
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answered by enigma 4
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listen the bible is judiasm..
everyone's jewish in the bible.
2006-08-16 12:30:59
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answered by Anonymous
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