How did Noah make the box?

How did Noah make the box? Although we usually imagine that Noah has made a ship to carry his family and animals, ancient Bible art has shown the box as a simple wooden box with a boat, as is found in the well -safe mosaic floor found at the Turkish Moposia. Claus Peter Simon through photo, his work, CC via 3.0

Today, by reading the story of Noah’s box (born 6-9), we naturally imagine that Noah, its family, and all kinds of filled animals have survived a flood on a large wooden ship or other ship. Anyway, the box was a boat, okay?

Not so fast! In the art of ancient Bible, Noah’s boat is shown not as a boat, but as a simple wooden box on the legs. In his article “Noah’s … Curious Case of Box?” In the summer issue of 2021 Bible archeology reviewsThe archaeologist, Shelley, looks at the examples of the art of the ancient Bible, and examines how the initial translation of the Hebrew word of the “box” has influenced the ancient pictures of Noah’s poor marine construction in amazing and unexpected ways.

So did the art of ancient Bible help us answer this question, “How did Noah make the box?” This may seem strange, but the early first thousand CE Christian and Jewish artists presented Noah’s boat as a box, often with legs. The initial reflection of the box comes from the infidel city of Apamiya Kabotos, where the coins during the second and third centuries have shown Noah and his wife standing inside a box with an open lid. The olive branch above the lid, and a pigeon of a revenue (birth 8: 6-12) is shown.

The opium coin depicts Noah and his wife in the box, which is shown as a box with an open lid floating on the water, named Noah’s name in Greek. This coin is of mid -century CE Photo by Internet archive book photos. Public domain.

The story of Noah’s box and the Bible flood is also repeated topics in the mosaic floors that have adorned with churches and synagogues in the whole ancient world. One of the most secure and extremely wide scenes comes from Moposia, the location of Turkey, where dozens of animals are surrounded by four feet around the open chest (see the picture above). “Noah’s box is released on the open chest of the chest.” Recently, in the fifth century synagogue in northern Israel, a similar mosaic carpet has been revealed in the excavation, in which the boat is not like a boat, but like a wooden chest.

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So, why did the ancient Bible show the ark of Noah in this extraordinary way? The answer is with the translation. While the original authors of the Pentitach used Noah’s ark (the nominated Hebrew termsTIEVEH) And the title box -shaped “box” (Arun)), The Greek translator of the Hebrew Bible, who started his work in the third century BC, used the same Greek word, KabotosWhich means an associated wood container, which is used to store valuables, refers to both items.

It seems, therefore, it seems that the early Jewish and Christian artists, who worked in the early first thousand CE, were influenced by the excessive interpretations of the translated Hebrew Bible, which suggested them that Noah’s box and the ark of the covenant were the same.

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