{"product_id":"atra-hasis-michael-mcgilbourne-9798254218470","title":"Atra-Hasis: The First Flood Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eATRA-HASIS - THE FIRST FLOOD STORY 1760 BCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is the oldest story humanity has ever told?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot the oldest story written down. The oldest story \u003ci\u003etold\u003c\/i\u003e - carried from fire to fire, voice to voice, for six thousand years before anyone pressed it into clay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer is a flood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd a man who listened when no one else would.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if\u003c\/b\u003e the story that became Noah's Ark is older than civilization itself?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if\u003c\/b\u003e the person who saved it from being lost forever had to fight to keep every difficult word intact?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat if\u003c\/b\u003e the clay tablet sitting in a museum today was pressed by the hands of a sixteen-year-old scribe in Babylon - a boy racing against politics, fever, and the death of the last living voice?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the oldest truth in the world has always been this: the people who survive are the people who listen?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAtra-Hasis - The First Flood Story\u003c\/i\u003e moves between two worlds simultaneously: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e8000 BCE\u003c\/b\u003e - the Euphrates delta before cities existed, where a man named Atra-Hasis notices that the river smells wrong and begins, in secret, to build a boat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e1760 BCE\u003c\/b\u003e - the city of Babylon at the height of its power, where an aging oral storyteller and a young scribe have four weeks to press the oldest flood story in the world into clay before the last voice carrying it is gone - and before powerful men in the temple hierarchy succeed in removing the passage they find most dangerous\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrounded in real archaeology, real clay tablets, and real historical scholarship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten to be felt rather than studied\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFor adults, young adults, and anyone who wants history to be alive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBeyond His Story We Stand\u003c\/i\u003e series - a chronological journey through human history told through the people who lived it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael McGilbourne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798254218470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Michael McGilbourne","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148506374399,"sku":"9798254218470","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/atra-hasis-michael-mcgilbourne-9798254218470","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}