From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

Though he never attended college, Webster's father was intellectually curious and prized education ; his mother spent long hours teaching Noah and his siblings spelling, mathematics and music.

John Chrysostom, a church father, writes that Noah ’ s behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its aftereffects: “ Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor ”.

A fuller account would explain what exactly Ham “ had done to ” his father ; or why Noah directed a curse at Canaan for Ham ’ s misdeed ; or how Noah came to know what occurred.

The narrator relates two facts: ( 1 ) Noah became inebriated when he “ uncovered himself within his tent ” and ( 2 ) Ham “ saw his father ’ s nakedness .” Thus, these passages revolve around sexuality and the exposure of genitalia as compared with other Hebrew bible texts, such as Habakkuk 2: 15 and Lamentations 4: 21.

:" And in the twenty-eighth jubilee Anno Mundi | A. M. Noah began to enjoin upon his sons ' sons the ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he knew, and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honour father and mother, and love their neighbour, and guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity.

Crowe's upcoming projects include Les Misérables, an adaption of the popular musical in which he will portray Javert, Man of Steel where he will play Jor-El, the father of Superman, and Noah where he will play the titular biblical patriarch.

The first such case mentioned in the Bible is that of Enoch ( son of Jared, great-grandfather of Noah, and father of Methuselah ).

A text from the Islamic world claims that the Greeks derived from Shem: Tabari II: 11 “ Shem, the son of Noah was the father of the Arabs, the Persians, and the Greeks ;...”

Rashi ( Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaqi ) refers to Seth as the ancestor of Noah and hence the father of all mankind, all other humans having perished in the Great Flood.

In Shem, the elder brother of Ham and Japheth, first born son of Noah, is referred to as the father of the sons of Eber ( עבר ), which may have a similar meaning.

The sons of Noah have not been mentioned in the Qur ' an, except for the fact that one of the sons was among the people who did not follow his own father, not among the believers and thus was washed away in the flood.

Deucalion, with the aid of his father Prometheus, was saved from this deluge by building a chest ( literally “ chest ” like the Bible's “ ark ,” which means “ box ”) Like his Biblical equivalent Noah and Mesopotamian counterpart Utnapishtim, he uses his chest to survive the deluge with his wife, Pyrrha.

According to legend, when her father was denied a place in the ark by Noah, Cessair advised him to build an idol.

Noah Ferry, who named the city in honor of his father, William Montague Ferry, founded the city.

Noah Speer was the father of Louis M. Speer, Esq., born in a log cabin on the Speer homestead / Gibsonton farm in 1810.

Harry French inherited numerous social, business and political connections — his father was Samuel Livingston French, born in Plymouth on September 8, 1839, a great-grandson of Noah Wadhams, Plymouth's illustrious 18th century preacher.

The third is in verse 19: ' And Lamech the father of Noah died in those days ; yet verily he did not go with all his heart in the ways of his father, and he died in the hundred and ninety-fifth year of the life of Noah.

Veteran character actor Noah Beery, Jr. played Rockford's father, Joseph " Rocky " Rockford, while Gretchen Corbett portrayed Rockford's lawyer and sometime lover, Beth Davenport, until she left the series over a salary dispute with the studio.

He is the son of Henry Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda ( by first wife Susan Brewer, stepdaughter of Noah Dietrich ).

His father, Béla Sr., considered himself thoroughly Hungarian, because on his father's side the Bartók family was a Hungarian lower noble family, originating from Borsod county ( Móser 2006a, 44 ; Bartók 1981, 13 ), though his mother was from a Roman Catholic Serbian family ( Bayley 2001, 16 ).

His mother and father had married four years previously, at which time Chaplin Sr. became the legal carer of Hannah's illegitimate son, Sydney John ( 1885 – 1965 ).

Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.

Until the election of his son George W. Bush to the presidency in 2000, Bush was commonly referred to simply as " George Bush "; since that time, the forms " George H. W. Bush ", " Bush 41 ", " Bush the Elder ", and " George Bush, Sr ." have come into common use as a way to distinguish the father from the son.

His father, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Sr., was the district attorney of Orleans Parish from 1973 – 2003.

Bogart resumed his friendship with boyhood pal Bill Brady, Jr. whose father had show business connections, and eventually Bogart got an office job working for William A. Brady Sr .' s new company World Films.

His father, James Madison, Sr. ( 1723 – 1801 ), was a tobacco planter who grew up on a plantation, then called Mount Pleasant, in Orange County, Virginia, which he had inherited upon reaching adulthood.

* Joseph Smith, Sr. ( 1771 – 1840 ), father of Joseph Smith, and first Presiding Patriarch in the Latter Day Saint movement

His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin, Sr., who emigrated from Great Bentley, Essex, England in 1635 and helped found Hartford, Connecticut.

His father, Nathaniel Tureaud Sr., was a minister.

* 17-Gerry Adams, Sr, 77, Irish Republican Army volunteer, father of Gerry Adams.

Theodore, Sr., had a tremendous influence on his son, who wrote of him, " My father, Theodore Roosevelt, was the best man I ever knew.

** John B. Kelly, Sr., American Olympic rower, father of Grace Kelly ( b. 1889 )

* March 21 – David McCallum, Sr., British violinist and father of actor David McCallum ( b. 1897 )

* 1828 – Casparus van Houten Sr. ( father of Coenraad Johannes van Houten ) patents an inexpensive method for pressing cocoa butter from roasted cocoa beans, leaving cocoa solids.

* November 30 – William H. Gates, Sr., American attorney, father of Bill Gates

White's father, Edward H. White, Sr. was a major general in the Air Force.

Along with his father, Jim Shea Sr., he passed the Olympic Torch to the 1980 U. S. Men's Hockey Team, who then ignited the Olympic Cauldron.

Like his father, Carter Harrison, Sr., Carter Harrison, Jr. gained election to five terms as Chicago's mayor.

Screen names are also used to create a more marketable name, as in the case of Creighton Tull Chaney, who adopted the pseudonym Lon Chaney, Jr., a reference to his famous father Lon Chaney, Sr. On the converse, Nicolas Cage adopted this stage name instead of his real name, Nicolas Kim Coppola, in order to conceal the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of famous director Francis Ford Coppola.

Hird's grandfather, the late Allan Hird, Sr., was a notable player and president for the Essendon Football Club, and his father Allan Hird, Jr. had a brief playing career with Essendon.

His father, Friederich, Sr., was an evangelical.

Notable traders, agents, and refugee Tories among the Cherokee included John Stuart, Henry Stuart, Alexander Cameron, John McDonald, John Joseph Vann ( father of James Vann ), Daniel Ross ( father of John Ross ), John Walker Sr., John McLemore ( father of Bob ), William Buchanan, John Watts ( father of John Watts Jr .), John D. Chisholm, John Benge ( father of Bob Benge ), Thomas Brown, John Rogers ( Welsh ), John Gunter ( German, founder of Gunter's Landing ), James Adair ( Irish ), William Thorpe ( English ), and Peter Hildebrand ( German ), among many others, several attaining the status of minor chiefs and / or members of significant delegations.