Click here (YouTube) for a classic comic midrash on the Biblical story by a young Bill Cosby (1965 on the Jack Parr Program).
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My room mate and I watched this video and had good laugh over it.
Thinking about how Noah was in a desert and probably didn't know much of anything about boats, he might have actually felt like that.
For a man in the desert that probably was a pretty absurd thing to ask him to do. But, in the Bible, Noah trusted God regardless and went around building that giant ark..
I was laughing the whole time watching this video.
I will say the two questions that I have on my mind about the story Noah is, how is that are variety of pairs of animals get on board an arc when some are carnivorous? Also, how are all these species in the same location when some of them don't live in this geographical area where know is building this arc?
I'm curious because it just seems like that would not only raise eyebrows with people but it also makes me think that it would be a disaster on board.
You'd think Cosby would have at least get the story details correct if he's going to be doing this in public (he got the cubits wrong, the number of animals [didn't mention the 7 clean ones], etc)...
Although I did laugh at the end when God was the one saying "Right!"
Cosby does have a comically effective way of "putting us in Noah's shoes', as it were. I wonder if his humor has any (intentional) theological subtext? Is he suggesting, 'Here's what you get when you try to take this too literally?' Or, maybe he's reminding us just how unusual divine-human communications are, to begin with. Then again, maybe we're just supposed to laugh and not worry about it!
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My room mate and I watched this video and had good laugh over it.
Thinking about how Noah was in a desert and probably didn't know much of anything about boats, he might have actually felt like that.
For a man in the desert that probably was a pretty absurd thing to ask him to do. But, in the Bible, Noah trusted God regardless and went around building that giant ark..
-Timi Miner
I was laughing the whole time watching this video.
I will say the two questions that I have on my mind about the story Noah is, how is that are variety of pairs of animals get on board an arc when some are carnivorous? Also, how are all these species in the same location when some of them don't live in this geographical area where know is building this arc?
I'm curious because it just seems like that would not only raise eyebrows with people but it also makes me think that it would be a disaster on board.
You'd think Cosby would have at least get the story details correct if he's going to be doing this in public (he got the cubits wrong, the number of animals [didn't mention the 7 clean ones], etc)...
Although I did laugh at the end when God was the one saying "Right!"
- Eric Dutton
This comedy bit is funny. Bill Cosby has a good point though, how would someone react to this divine voice?
-Taylor E.
Cosby does have a comically effective way of "putting us in Noah's shoes', as it were. I wonder if his humor has any (intentional) theological subtext? Is he suggesting, 'Here's what you get when you try to take this too literally?' Or, maybe he's reminding us just how unusual divine-human communications are, to begin with. Then again, maybe we're just supposed to laugh and not worry about it!
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