The Ark Before Noah Finkel Irving
The Ark Before Noah Finkel Irving When a small, peculiar, palm-sized clay tablet made its way to the desk of Irving Finkel, Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, Finkel could…
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The Ark Before Noah Finkel Irving
When a small, peculiar, palm-sized clay tablet made its way to the desk of Irving Finkel, Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper at the British Museum, Finkel could hardly believe his luck. In this captivating, absorbing work of scholarship, Finkel, a world authority on ancient Mesopotamia, leads the reader on a detective hunt for the prototype of Noah's Ark--from cuneiform wedges to bundles of reeds, from ancient Babylon to modern Iraq, Finkel reveals new information on the origin of the Babylonian Flood story which pre-dates the biblical deluge, including the surprising size and shape of the boat itself, and even where it came to rest. What he discovered was a missing piece in the story of Noah and the Ark.
Throughout, The Ark Before Noah takes us on an adventurous voyage of New to this edition, Finkel puts the "Ark Tablet" to the test in building a modern version of the ship.