Was Noah a Hebrew?

Noah woke up and, realizing that Ham had treated him disrespectfully, he cursed Canaan, Ham's son, condemning him to be a slave to his father's brothers. Noah lived 350 years after the flood and died at the age of 950. Reprinted with permission from Who's Who in the Hebrew Bible (The Jewish Publication Society). read more

This name Noah appears 8 times in the New Testament (spelled Νωε, Noe), from his listing as ancestor of Christ (Luke 3:36) to Paul's pageant of heroes of the faith (Hebrews 11:7) and Peter's second epistle in which he calls Noah as preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:5; see full New Testament concordance). read more

Philo, a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, also excused Noah by noting that one can drink in two different manners: (1) to drink wine in excess, a peculiar sin to the vicious evil man or (2) to partake of wine as the wise man, Noah being the latter. read more

Noah woke up and, realizing that Ham had treated him disrespectfully, he cursed Canaan, Ham’s son, condemning him to be a slave to his father’s brothers. Noah lived 350 years after the flood and died at the age of 950. Reprinted with permission from Who’s Who in the Hebrew Bible (The Jewish Publication Society). read more