When interpretations go beyond the text

[TheLightWithin]

I follow this scholar on YouTube, he has a lot of good things to say.
This short recently caught my attention. It's about Noah.

Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 5:32-10:1 - New International Version

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth. Wickedness in the World - When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they...

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I think he's right. This is an interesting example of traditions involving interpretations that go beyond the text.
But the bible is oblique enough or sparing enough in detail that - well don't many interpretations require extrapolating beyond the text? Or at least some extra biblical knowledge for context?

 

[wil]

Oops

 

[TheLightWithin]

I follow this scholar on YouTube, he has a lot of good things to say.
This short recently caught my attention. It's about Noah.

Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 5:32-10:1 - New International Version

After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth. Wickedness in the World - When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they...

www.biblegateway.com

I think he's right. This is an interesting example of traditions involving interpretations that go beyond the text.
But the bible is oblique enough or sparing enough in detail that - well don't many interpretations require extrapolating beyond the text? Or at least some extra biblical knowledge for context?

Whoa at least now this looks like it was blocked too-
So I will say for the record, the information, that it again was AB Higashi "Was Noah Mocked"

A.B. Higashi

Videos on how to read the Bible better from diverse perspectives. Academic biblical scholarship in the palm of your hand.

www.youtube.com

 

[Thomas]

Yep ... check your sources ...

 

[TheLightWithin]

Yep ... check your sources ...

Do you mean cite your sources?
I was taking too much for granted that they would be visible as posted.
But putting the actual title up and not just the link is needed as links alone lead to the information being lost

 

[TheLightWithin]

In any case now that I put the information down about who he was and how to find the short - has anybody looked at it?
Any thoughts?

 

[Thomas]

Do you mean cite your sources?

Sorry, I think we got crossed wires here ... there was no criticism intended.

I was agreeing with Higashi that the idea that his neighbours mocked Noah, or clamoured to be let in the ark as the waters rose, is a common image with no actual basis in Scripture ... so that was the source to be checked .... and as he said, the source was probably Hollywood.

 

[wil]

Sorry, I think we got crossed wires here ... there was no criticism intended.

I was agreeing with Higashi that the idea that his neighbours mocked Noah, or clamoured to be let in the ark as the waters rose, is a common image with no actual basis in Scripture ... so that was the source to be checked .... and as he said, the source was probably Hollywood.

You fell into my issue ...not fully explaining, it was.fully composed and made sense in your head after watching and everyone was on the same page...alas...

As to the story of Noah, and checking sources, the size of the ark, the worldwide flood destroying mankind, development of the rainbow...fawgetabout Hollywood, me thinks Yahwewood is perfectly capable of embellishments and hyperbole....as is the Priestly screenwriters with their version. Of course for centuries Moses was given the credit for the story. Would be so cool to skip forward the next couple thousand years to see what the consensus is then!

 

[talib-al-kalim]

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[RabbiO]

I was agreeing with Higashi that the idea that his neighbours mocked Noah, or clamoured to be let in the ark as the waters rose, is a common image with no actual basis in Scripture ... so that was the source to be checked .... and as he said, the source was probably Hollywood.

Actually, the sources go way back before Hollywood. There is aggadic midrash.

 

[TheLightWithin]

This video is unavailable.

I thought I corrected that - by adding the information -- you can find it here on this youtube channel

A.B. Higashi

Videos on how to read the Bible better from diverse perspectives. Academic biblical scholarship in the palm of your hand.

www.youtube.com

Look under Shorts for "Was Noah mocked?"

 

[Thomas]

Actually, the sources go way back before Hollywood. There is aggadic midrash.

Whoa! I stand corrected ... thanks!

 

[wil]

Actually, the sources go way back before Hollywood. There is aggadic midrash.

This is always gonna be interesting to me...2/3s of the Christian Bible is the Old Testament, which many (if not most) Christians see as the Jewish bible...but without the mishnah and midrash we are missing the interpretations and discussions of the texts written well before Jesus came along.