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100	1		_aFinkel, Irving L.
245	1	4	_aThe ark before Noah : _bdecoding the story of the flood / _cIrving Finkel.
250			_aFirst American edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNan A. Talese/Doubleday, _c[2014]
300			_a421 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company, London, in 2014."
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aAbout 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.
650		0	_aDeluge.
650		0	_aNoah's ark.
650		0	_aCuneiform tablets.
650		0	_aAkkadian language _vTexts.
650		0	_aMythology, Assyro-Babylonian.
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