This Son Shall Comfort Us: An Onomastic Tale of Two Noahs

From an etiological perspective, the Hebrew Bible connects the name Noah with two distinct but somewhat homonymous verbal roots: nw? ("rest") and n?m ("comfort," "regret" [sometimes "repent"]). Significantly, the Enoch and Noah material in the revealed text of the Joseph Smith Translation of Genesis (especially Moses 7–8) also connects the name Noah in a positive sense to the earth's "rest" and the Lord's covenant with Enoch after the latter "refuse[d] to be comforted" regarding the imminen...