When I finished the Noah unit from The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909), I was interested in the differences between the ways the same stories were told between reading A and reading B. It's almost like these were retellings too, which made me excited to start brainstorming for possible storytelling posts.
Again, I was the most interested in the events surrounding Noah's ark. However, I really liked the story of Noah's sons finding him naked because it just seemed so strange to me that it was such a big deal that his sons respect Noah by not seeing him naked. I bet that their naked bodies looked a lot like Noah's, so it seemed strange that the son who saw him first was so harshly punished in the generations to come.
The one thing I'm looking forward to the most in my storytelling post is making these stories more straightforward and with fewer characters. I get so lost with all the generations and complicated relationships between them, that it will be my goal to have a storytelling post with as few characters as possible!
Noah is not written to be as flawless as he was in reading A, which I liked. I thought it was really strange that he couldn't perform priestly duties because a lion had maimed him. Small details like this are what I think makes a story interesting, so I'll have to add a lot like that in my storytelling post.
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