Finkel, Irving L. <br/><br/>
The ark before Noah :  decoding the story of the flood / 
Irving Finkel. 
 - First American edition. 
 - 421 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> "Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company, London, in 2014." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780385537117 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013050952 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Deluge.<br/>Noah's ark.<br/>Cuneiform tablets.<br/>Akkadian language--Texts.<br/>Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL1625.D4  / F56 2014b 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299/.21