Reading Notes
When I was young, my parents would take me to Sunday School at church every Sunday morning. Because of this I was interested in reading the Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables unit, as I am familiar with some of the biblical stories. In the reading I was very surprised at how even though there were some similarities to the biblical versions, they were all stories that I had never heard of before. The story that stood out to me the most was The Giant of the Flood. This story wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I enjoyed the incorporation of a giant into the classic Noah's Ark story. What surprised me the most was the giant unicorn since it was in The Shepherd-Boy to King story as well, yet I have never encountered a unicorn in the biblical versions. Something I enjoyed about the story was the origins of wine and being drunk from the grape plant. In the bible there are many stories with wine or about drinking so it was interesting to read about this origin story of wine. In The Giant of the Flood I would change a few things if I were to retell it. Since the whole purpose of the Ark was to take animals in pairs so that they could reproduce when the flood ended, I may add another Unicorn as well as another giant to the story. Also, I may remove the parts about the bird and the lion because to me they seemed out of place in the story. The biggest change I would make is the ending, because I think it would be really interesting for the giant to be an ancestor of Goliath from the classic story David and Goliath. Instead of Moses killing the giant in the end, Og the giant could be allowed to live in exile and have children, which could explain how Goliath is so huge.
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| (Noah's Ark, Credit to Edward Hicks) |
Bibliography
The Giant of the Flood, from Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa
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