Scriptural Reasoning
Noah and the Ark
September 29
6:15pm Reception
7pm Panel
7:30pm Q&A
Address: 4701 Patrick Henry Drive, Building 18, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Recep Dogan- PhD Scholar of Islamic Theology
Rabbi Ilana Goldhaber-Gordon, PhD
Associate Rabbi and School Director
Congregation Beth Jacob
Noah
Quran
Hud 11:28-32
28 He [Noah] said, ‘My people, think: if I did have a clear sign from my Lord, and He had given me grace of His own, though it was hidden from you, could we force you to accept it against your will? 29 My people, I ask no reward for it from you; my reward comes only from God. I will not drive away the faithful: they are sure to meet their Lord. I can see you are foolish. 30 My people, who could help me against God if I drove the faithful away? Will you not take heed? 31 I am not telling you that I hold God’s treasures, or have any knowledge of what is hidden, or that I am an angel. Nor do I say that God will not grant any good to those who are despised in your eyes:
God Himself knows best what is in their souls. If I did this I would be one of the wrongdoers.’ 32 They said, ‘Noah! You have argued with us for too long. Bring down on us the punishment you threaten us with, if you are telling the truth.’
English translation: Abdel Haleem
Noah
Hebrew Bible Genesis 7: 1-6
1 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, with all your household, for you alone have I found righteous before Me in this generation. 2 Of every clean animal you shall take seven pairs, males and their mates, and of every animal that is not clean, two, a male and its mate; 3 of the birds of the sky also, seven pairs, male and female, to keep seed alive upon all the earth. 4 For in seven days’ time I will make it rain upon the earth, forty days and forty nights, and I will blot out from the earth all existence that I created.” 5 And Noah did just as the LORD commanded him. 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the Flood came, waters upon the earth.
English translation: JPS 1985