The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood - Irving Finkel Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Babylonian Myth
Book Of Genesis
Mesopotamia
Shared by:jodindy
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Read by Irving Finkel, Gareth Armstrong
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
Release date: 04-30-14
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Since the Victorian period, it has been understood that the story of Noah, iconic in the Book of Genesis, and a central motif in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, derives from a much older story that existed centuries before in ancient Babylon. But the relationship between the Babylonian and biblical traditions was shrouded in mystery. Then, in 2009, Irving Finkel, a curator at the British Museum and a world authority on ancient
Mesopotamia, found himself playing detective when a member of the public arrived at the museum with an intriguing cuneiform tablet from a family collection.
Not only did the tablet reveal a new version of the Babylonian Flood Story; the ancient poet described the size and completely unexpected shape of the ark, and gave detailed boat building specifications. Decoding this ancient message wedge by cuneiform wedge, Dr. Finkel discovered where the Babylonians believed the ark came to rest and developed a new explanation of how the old story ultimately found its way into the Bible. In The Ark Before Noah, Dr. Finkel takes us on an adventurous voyage of discovery, opening the door to an enthralling world of ancient voices and new meanings.
Reader comment…“I absolutely ADORED this book. Not only did I learn an incredible amount, but the author is a quintessentially British academic - and that makes him adorable. At least, to me. Page after page is injected with both hard facts, historic discovery, and the dry humor that you either get and love - or you don’t.
This is a book written by a man that deciphered one of the more important tablets that show how much the traditional myth story of “Noah’s flood” was just a copy/paste job from an earlier myth. Only names were really changed. As a skeptic and atheist that has a healthy (mostly healthy I suppose) love of history, this book seemed tailor written for me to love every minute of it.
The narration by both the author and Armstrong was strong. I adored Finkel’s phlegmatic British accent. “
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
August 8th, 2021
Gilgamesh anyone?
August 8th, 2021
Very excited; thank you!
August 8th, 2021
jodindy! simply is telling us to prepare oars for Irving Finkel exciting ride, he is gonna take us on his boat to the beginning of written history as we know it to what before the flood.
Thank you jodindy may Ishtar bliss you <3
August 8th, 2021
@ssafe05
Irving Finkel is leader office of mesopotamian section in the british museum. he worked on translating tablets throughout his life. he decided to do a documentary about the real flood and how old mesptanainins survived it, it turn out there was no normale ship but a bunch of big circular ships made by reeds. he couldn’t do a documentary since situation in iraq isn’t stable so for something to replace it he done this book.
August 8th, 2021
@Within - that’s awesome. I do remember seeing a docu with some folks developing the reed and bitumen coated roundboats. If memory serves, they needed to test it in India because of the challenges in Iraq.
Thanks for stimulating the old neurons. They are a bit tardy these days.
August 8th, 2021
I would argue Finkel is distracting. I actually think there is plenty of historicity in OT, but is suppressed because of issues relating to race. Having studied Sumerian, and Cuneiform i have a big problem re several logical fallacies which are perpetuated by the experts like Finkel. Such as the vast majority of Cuneiform signs have not been defined from the pictorial expression. But then they claim to be able to be certain an optional set of 10 or 20 phonemes apply to that sign. Cuneiform earliest signs were only one meaning which was represented by the little picture. Its hard to accept that Sumerian language academics cant tell us what the picture means but then claims to understand all its phonetic derivatives. Axiomatically this is guff. Another really crazy axiomatic problem with Sumerian is no “O” vowel has been determined amongst cuneiform signs. That would be like playing scrabble without an important letter.
Finkel also does a lot of comedy which i don’t know, he likes to be popular and this worries me as well, in someone who is considered the worlds eminent expert in Sumerian.
Anyways look forward to this thank you.
August 8th, 2021
@ssafe05
Welcome buddy! I believe he had lecture on youtube about it. it has a million of views so it is easy to find. enjoy!
November 17th, 2021
Any chance of an upload of Irving Finkel’s new book The First Ghosts? :-)
December 14th, 2021
^ ditto :)
August 13th, 2023
remittancegirl OMG I’m smitten.
https://historyaudio.org/abss/the-first-ghosts-a-rich-history-of-ancient-ghosts-and-ghwost-stories-from-the-british-museum-curator-irving-finkel/
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