TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finkel,Irving L.
TI  - The ark before Noah: decoding the story of the flood 
SN  - 9780385537117
AV  - BL1625.D4 F56 2014b
U1  - 299/.21 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
KW  - Deluge
KW  - Noah's ark
KW  - Cuneiform tablets
KW  - Akkadian language
KW  - Texts
KW  - Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian
N1  - "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
ER  -