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This tradition is apparently connected with a different interpretation of the name Naamah, from ne’imah (melody and song) (Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Gen. 4: 22).
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Norton Wise, and fellow students—especially Sameer Shah and Naamah Akavia—for raising more questions and debates than could be answered in a one-semester seminar.
Wired Robin Wasserman 2010
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Last year the author started another cycle set about a hundred years later which makes it a 16th century analog and featuring fourth generation descendants of the Kushiel's Legacy characters, this time dedicated to Naamah another of Elua's Companions.
"Naamah's Curse" by Jacqueline Carey (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010
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Of finished series the Legacy of Kushiel in fantasy and Night's Dawn in sf are my top the new Naamah novels are set in the same universe as Kushiel but 100 years later and with different characters...
Twelve 2010 Novels that Stand Out So Far Liviu 2010
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While Kushiel represents the darker side with pain and suffering as essential attributes and the original novels strongly reflect that, Naamah represents pure desire and physical love and appropriately Naamah's Kiss was an exuberant novel with an unforgettable heroine and was an A++ and a top novel of mine for 2009.
"Naamah's Curse" by Jacqueline Carey (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010
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It is also related that Naamah and Lilith harm infants and abuse people in their sleep (Zohar, Bereshit 4: 7).
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Naamah was the wife of Shamadon and the union with this fiend produced Asmodeus (Ashmedai), the king of the demons.
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The midrash (Midrash ha-Gadol, Gen. Rabbah 4: 22) relates that Naamah was the most beautiful woman in the world, so much so that she caused the ministering angels to fall prey to her loveliness for they thought she was one of them.
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Naamah goes with her husband and children into the ark.
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She writes that while Noah is saving pairs of animals by taking them aboard the ark, Naamah is collecting every seed and bulb so that the plants of the earth will also be saved from the flood.
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