Editing Generations of Noah (section)

==Extrabiblical sons of Noah==
There exist various traditions in post-biblical and talmudic sources claiming that Noah had children other than Shem, Ham, and Japheth who were born before the Deluge.

According to the [[Quran]] (''[[Hud (surah)|Hud]]'' 42&ndash;43), Noah had another unnamed son who refused to come aboard the Ark, instead preferring to climb a mountain, where he drowned. Some later Islamic commentators give his name as either ''Yam'' or ''Kan'an''.<ref>This was observed as early as 1734, in [[George Sale]]'s Commentary on the Quran.</ref>

According to [[Irish mythology]], as found in the ''[[Annals of the Four Masters]]'' and elsewhere, Noah had another son named [[Cessair|Bith]] who was not allowed aboard the Ark, and who attempted to colonise Ireland with 54 persons, only to be wiped out in the Deluge.{{Cn|date=November 2022}}

Some 9th-century manuscripts of the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]'' assert that ''[[Sceafa]]'' was the fourth son of Noah, born aboard the Ark, from whom the [[House of Wessex]] traced their ancestry; in [[William of Malmesbury]]'s version of this genealogy ({{circa|1120}}), Sceaf is instead made a descendant of ''Strephius'', the fourth son born aboard the Ark (''Gesta Regnum Anglorum'').{{Cn|date=November 2022}}

An early Arabic work known as ''Kitab al-Magall'' "Book of Rolls" (part of [[Clementine literature]]) mentions ''Bouniter'', the fourth son of Noah, born after the flood, who allegedly invented astronomy and instructed Nimrod.<ref>{{cite book|last=Klijn|first=Albertus|author-link=Albertus Klijn|title=Seth: In Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpY3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA54|year=1977|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-05245-3}}, page 54</ref> Variants of this story with often similar names for Noah's fourth son are also found in the c. fifth century [[Ge'ez language|Ge'ez]] work ''[[Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan]]'' (''Barvin''), the c. sixth century [[Syriac language|Syriac]] book ''[[Cave of Treasures]]'' (''Yonton''), the seventh century ''[[Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius]]'' (''Ionitus''<ref>S.P. Brock notes that the earliest Greek texts of ''Pseudo-Methodius'' read ''Moneton'', while the Syriac versions have ''Ionţon'' ([https://books.google.com/books?id=AllY-mu65KsC&dq=maniton+noah&pg=PA123 Armenian Apocrypha, p. 117])</ref>), the Syriac ''[[Book of the Bee]]'' 1221 (''Yônatôn''), the Hebrew ''[[Chronicles of Jerahmeel]]'', c. 12th&ndash;14th century (''Jonithes''), and throughout Armenian apocryphal literature, where he is usually referred to as ''Maniton''; as well as in works by [[Petrus Comestor]] {{circa|1160}} (''Jonithus''), [[Godfrey of Viterbo]] 1185 (''Ihonitus''), [[Michael the Syrian]] 1196 (''Maniton''), [[Abu al-Makarim]] {{circa|1208}} (''Abu Naiţur''); [[Jacob van Maerlant]] {{circa|1270}} (''Jonitus''), and [[Abraham Zacuto]] 1504 (''Yoniko''). <!-- and [[Jehiel ben Solomon Heilprin]] {{circa|1697}} (''Yuniku''). {{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} -->

[[Martin of Opava]] ({{circa|1250}}), later versions of the ''[[Mirabilia Urbis Romae]]'', and the ''[[Chronica Boemorum]]'' of [[Giovanni de' Marignolli]] (1355) make [[Janus]] (the Roman deity) the fourth son of Noah, who moved to Italy, invented [[astrology]], and instructed Nimrod.{{Cn|date=November 2022}}

According to the monk [[Annio da Viterbo]] (1498), the Hellenistic Babylonian writer [[Berossus]] had mentioned 30 children born to Noah after the Deluge, including Macrus, [[Iapetus (mythology)|Iapetus]] Iunior (Iapetus the Younger), [[Prometheus]] Priscus (Prometheus the Elder), [[Tuisto|Tuyscon]] Gygas (Tuyscon the Giant), Crana, Cranus, Granaus, 17 Tytanes ([[titan (mythology)|Titans]]), Araxa Prisca (Araxa the Elder), Regina, [[Pandora]] Iunior (Pandora the Younger), [[Thetis]], [[Oceanus]], and [[Typhon|Typhoeus]]. However, Annio's manuscript is widely regarded today as having been a forgery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.annomundi.com/history/travels_of_noah.htm|title=Travels of Noah into Europe|first=Mike|last=Gascoigne|website=www.annomundi.com}}</ref>

Historian [[William Whiston]] stated in his book ''[[A New Theory of the Earth]]'' that Noah, who is to be identified with [[Fuxi]], migrated with his wife and children born ''after'' the deluge to [[China]], and founded Chinese civilization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHnqPbyJpBQC&q=william+whiston+noah+china&pg=RA2-PA140|title=A New Theory of the Earth: From Its Original, to the Consummation of All Things. Wherein the Creation of the World in Six Days, the Universal Deluge, and the General Conflagration, as Laid Down in the Holy Scriptures, are Shewn to be Perfectly Agreeable to Reason and Philosophy. With a Large Introductory Discourse Concerning the Genuine Nature, Stile, and Extent of the Mosaick History of the Creation|last1=Whiston|first1=William|year=1708}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/21237084|title=Human diversity and the genealogy of languages: Noah as the founding ancestor of the Chinese|journal=Language Sciences|volume=30|issue=5|pages=512–528|last1=Hutton|first1=Christopher|year=2008|doi=10.1016/j.langsci.2007.07.004}}</ref>