The ark before Noah : decoding the story of the flood /
Finkel, Irving L.
The ark before Noah : decoding the story of the flood / Irving Finkel. - First American edition. - 421 pages ; 24 cm
"Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company, London, in 2014."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
About this book -- The wedge between us -- Words and people -- Recounting the flood -- The ark tablet -- Flood warning -- The question of shape -- Building the arks -- Life on board -- Babylon and Bible floods -- The Judaean experience -- What happened to the ark? -- What is the ark tablet? -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: ghosts, reincarnation and Babylonian learning -- Appendix 2: revisiting Gilgamesh, tablet XI -- Appendix 3: building the ark: technical report -- Appendix 4: reading the ark tablet.
9780385537117
2013050952
Deluge.
Noah's ark.
Cuneiform tablets.
Akkadian language--Texts.
Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian.
BL1625.D4 / F56 2014b
299/.21
The ark before Noah : decoding the story of the flood / Irving Finkel. - First American edition. - 421 pages ; 24 cm
"Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company, London, in 2014."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
About this book -- The wedge between us -- Words and people -- Recounting the flood -- The ark tablet -- Flood warning -- The question of shape -- Building the arks -- Life on board -- Babylon and Bible floods -- The Judaean experience -- What happened to the ark? -- What is the ark tablet? -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: ghosts, reincarnation and Babylonian learning -- Appendix 2: revisiting Gilgamesh, tablet XI -- Appendix 3: building the ark: technical report -- Appendix 4: reading the ark tablet.
9780385537117
2013050952
Deluge.
Noah's ark.
Cuneiform tablets.
Akkadian language--Texts.
Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian.
BL1625.D4 / F56 2014b
299/.21