Episode 3 The Raven and the Rabbi: Noah’s Birds and the Birth of Hope
Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem was not the first text to feature a raven, and the birds that appear in Genesis allow us to understand the nature of human resilience, and the reconciliation of God with the world after the flood.
Text: Genesis 6-8
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