Irving Finkel

——— (2021). The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies. Hodder & Stoughton.

———; Taylor, Jonathan (2015). Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts. J. Paul Getty Museum.

——— (2014). The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN   978-1444757057.

———, ed. (2008). Ancient Board Games in Perspective: Papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium with additional contributions. London: British Museum. ^[16]

———; Geller, M.J., eds. (2007). The Wellcome Conference on Babylonian Medicine. Styx.

———. "Report on the Sidon Cuneiform tablet". Archaeology & History in Lebanon. 24 (Autumn 2006): 114–20.

——— (2005). "Documents of the Physician and Magician". In Spar, I.; Lambert, W.G. (eds.). Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Metropolitan Museum. New York. pp. 155–76.

——— (2005). "Explanatory Commentary on a List of Materia Medica". In Spar, I.; Lambert, W.G. (eds.). Cuneiform Inscriptions in the Metropolitan Museum. New York. pp. 279–83.

——— (2003). "Pachisi in Arab Garb". Board Games Studies. 5: 65–78.

———; Reade, J.E. (2002). "On some inscribed Babylonian alabastra". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 12 (1): 31–46.

Fiction

• ——— (2018). The Writing in the Stone. Medina Publishing. ISBN   978-1-909-339-95-8.
• ——— (2012). Miss Barbellion's Garden. Kennedy & Boyd. ISBN   978-1-84921-071-3.
• ——— (2010). Swizzle de Brax and the Blungaphone. Kennedy & Boyd. ISBN   978-1-84921-082-9.
• ——— (2008). The Princess Who Wouldn't Come Home. Kennedy & Boyd. ISBN   978-1-904999-80-5.
• ——— (2007). The Last Resort Library. Kennedy & Boyd. ISBN   978-1-904999-41-6.

References

1. The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood, Irving Finkel 2014, p.101, 104, 106
2. "Royal Game of Ur" (PDF). Getty . Retrieved 2 March 2022.
3. "Irving Finkel". British Museum. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
4. Deciphering the world's oldest rule book, Curator's Corner, British Museum, 23 November 2015, 03:55, And I have to say, I feel guilty now when I think about it because I made my poor sister Angela play this game endlessly with me to see how the rules worked, on the basis [...].
5. The Museums Journal, vol. 104, collected issues 7-12, Museums Association, 2004, p. 23
6. Green, William (19 July 2008). "Big Game Hunter". Time. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
7. Scott, Danny (30 March 2014). "A Life in a Day: There's something special reading the blueprint of Noah's Ark". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
8. Gore, Will (13 February 2014). "How the ark changed shape". The Catholic Herald . Retrieved 2 November 2021.
9. Holland, Tom (13 February 2014). "The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood by Irving Finkel – review". The Guardian.
10. Baden, Joel (28 January 2014). "Noah's Ark discovery raises flood of questions". CNN. Archived from the original on 9 February 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
11. "Secrets of Noah's Ark - Transcript". Nova. PBS. 7 October 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
12. "About the Great Diary Project" . Retrieved 20 January 2014.
13. Irving Finkel and the Chamber of Lewis Chessmen I Curator's Corner S 2 Ep9 #CuratorsCorner, 24 September 2017, retrieved 19 August 2022
14. Grant, Katie (7 May 2014). "The Great Diary Project: The survival of the permanent life archive". The Independent. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
15. Ivry, Benjamin (25 March 2014). "How Darren Aronofsky and 'Noah' Got The Ark Wrong". Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
16. Aveline, John (2008). "Review of Ancient Board Games in Perspective. Papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium with additional contributions, edited by Irving L. Finkel". Bryn Mawr Classical Review . 9: 48.

External links

• The Babylonian Mind by Irving Finkel on YouTube.
• The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure by Irving Finkel on YouTube.
• On the deciphering of cuneiform by Irving Finkel on YouTube.
• The Great Diary Project
• Meeting Irving Finkel. The Jager File, 24 September 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2013. Archived here.

Irving Finkel
Finkel in 2015
Born	Irving Leonard Finkel 1951 (age 73–74)
Nationality	English
Known for	Discovery of tablet with Great Flood narrative suggesting a coracle-shaped ark, [1] Reconstruction of the Royal Game of Ur [2]
Spouse	Joanna
Children	5
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Birmingham (PhD)
Thesis	Ḫulbazizi: ancient Mesopotanian exorcistic incantations  (1976)
Doctoral advisor	Wilfred G. Lambert

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