Noah in rabbinic literature When Noah and his family and everything that he had taken with him were inside the ark, the people left outside asked him to admit them too, promising repentance. Noah refused to admit them, objecting that he had exhorted them to repent many years before the Flood. The people then assembled in great numbers around the ark in order to break into it; but they were destroyed by the lions and other wild animals which also surrounded it (Tanhuma., Noah, 10; Genesis Rabba 32.14; "Sefer haYashar", l.c.). Noah was constantly occupied in the ark; for he had to attend to
In the Beginning: The Bible Stories In the Beginning: The Bible Stories "In the Beginning" marked the fourth time Bible stories formed the basis of a Japanese-animated television series, following the two "Superbook" series and "The Flying House", which were made for Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network by Tatsunoko Production in the early 1980s. "In the Beginning" features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and Solomon, with the final episode featuring the birth of Jesus Christ. As with the second "Superbook" series,