02908cam a22003857a 4500 18121619 20220628163454.0 140303s2014 enkabf b 001 0 eng d 2013456565 GBB337015 bnb 016316921 Uk 9780345804396 (OCoLC)ocn839316336 UKMGB eng UKMGB OCLCO YDXCP XBM CDX GZM DLC lccopycat BL1625.D4 F56 2014 220.93 23 Finkel, Irving L. The ark before Noah : Decoding the story of the flood / Irving Finkel. New York : Anchor Books, 2014. 445 p. : black &white illustrations, map, color plates ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 388-400) and index. About this book -- The wedge between us -- Worlds 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 Judean experience -- What happened to the ark? -- What is the ark tablet? -- Conclusions : stories and shapes -- Appendix 1. Ghosts, the soul and reincarnation -- Appendix 2. Investigating the text of Gilgamesh XI -- Appendix 3. Building the ark : technical report -- Appendix 4. Reading the ark tablet -- Textual notes to Appendix 4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index. "British Museum expert Dr Irving Finkel reveals how decoding the symbols on a 4,000 year old piece of clay enable a radical new interpretation of the Noah's Ark myth. A world authority on the period, Dr Finkel's enthralling real-life detective story began with a most remarkable event at the British Museum - the arrival one day in 2008 of a single, modest-sized Babylonian cuneiform tablet - the palm-sized clay rectangles on which our ancestors created the first documents. It had been brought in by a member of the public and this particular tablet proved to be of quite extraordinary importance. Not only does it date from about 1850 BC, but it is a copy of the Babylonian Story of the Flood, a myth from ancient Mesopotamia revealing among other things, instructions for building a large boat to survive a flood. But Dr Finkel's pioneering work didn't stop there. Through another series of enthralling discoveries he has been able to decode the story of the Flood in ways which offer unanticipated revelations to readers of THE ARK BEFORE NOAH."--Publisher's website Simmons, Leonard. Deluge. Noah's ark. Archaeology/History Cuneiform tablets. Akkadian language Texts. Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian. 7 cbc copycat 3 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 22352 22352 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC MB MB GEN 2016-05-26 BAI 8000.00 220.93 FIN 0094047 2026-09-11 15:00:19 12000.00 2016-05-26 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC KR KR GEN 2016-05-26 BAI 8000.00 220.93 FIN 0094046 2016-08-02 00:00:00 12000.00 2016-05-26 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC MJ MJ GEN 2022-06-28 Book Aid International 8000.00 220. 93 FIN 0103116 2023-09-12 00:00:00 12000.00 2022-06-28 BK