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Naamah (Genesis)

Biblical figure

Field	Value
name	Naamah
image	Orvieto080.jpg
image_size	255px
alt	Naamah with her half-brother Jubal
caption	Marble bas relief at Orvieto Cathedral depicts Naamah as a teacher of reading, while her half-brother Jubal is a father of music.
birth_name	Naamah
other_names	Naama
spouse	Noah
parents	Lamech and Zillah
maybe Enoch and Edna
relations	Jabal (half-brother)
Jubal (half-brother)
Tubal-cain (brother)

maybe Enoch and Edna Jubal (half-brother) Tubal-cain (brother) Naamah ( – Naʿămā) is mentioned in the Bible, in , as a descendant of Cain. She was the only mentioned daughter of Lamech and Zillah and their youngest mentioned child; her brother was Tubal-cain, while Jabal and Jubal were her half-brothers, sons of Lamech's other wife Adah. She is often conflated with or connected to Naamah of the Zohar, one of the first women to seduce the grigori and give birth to nephilim.

Theories

Gordon Wenham notes that the reason "she should be picked out for special mention remains obscure." At the same time, R. R. Wilson suggests that the narrator simply wished to offer a balanced genealogy by noting that both of Lamech's wives had two children.

The Naamah mentioned in the Bible is a Cainite, a descendant in the lineage of Cain (the daughter of Lamech and sister of Tubal-cain). However, a Sethite Naamah is named as the wife of Noah (see Rashi's commentary on Genesis 4:22), and a daughter of Enoch, Noah's great-grandfather, in the early Jewish midrash Genesis Rabba (23.3). Some Jewish traditions associate her with singing.

The 17th-century theologian John Gill mentioned a theory which identified Naamah instead with the name of the wife of Ham, son of Noah, who he believed may have become confused with Noah's wife. See Wives aboard the Ark.

Family tree

References

[[Gordon Wenham]], ''Genesis 1–15'' ([[Word Biblical Commentary. WBC]]; Word, 1987), 114.
R. R. Wilson, ''Genealogy and History in the Biblical World'' (Yale University Press, 1977), 144.
[http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/mhl/mhl05.htm Sacred Texts: Judaism: The Bereshith or Genesis Rabba], a selection of sayings from the work translated into English by Samuel Rapaport
{{Jasher. 5:15
[http://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/gill/gen004.htm ''Exposition of the Old and New Testament,'' by John Gill, (1746–63), at sacred-texts.com.], note on Genesis 4:22.

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