What is the name of Noah’s wife in the medieval Jewish text The Book of Jubilees?

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In the Book of Jubilees, Noah’s wife is named Emzara.

The biblical Book of Genesis identifies Noah’s wife only as Noah’s wife and does not give her a personal name. The Book of Jubilees, a Jewish work composed in the Second Temple period, expands the patriarchal narratives and calls her Emzara.

Jubilees retells biblical history in a structured chronology and supplies additional genealogical details. Its name for Noah’s wife belongs to that later textual tradition, not to the short character description in Genesis.

Other Jewish and religious traditions give Noah’s wife different names, including Naamah in some later interpretations. That variation is why a source-specific question is essential: “Noah’s wife” does not have one universally shared name across all traditions.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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