Book overview
What is the oldest story humanity has ever told?
Not the oldest story written down. The oldest story told - carried from fire to fire, voice to voice, for six thousand years before anyone pressed it into clay.
The answer is a flood.
And a man who listened when no one else would.
What if the story that became Noah's Ark is older than civilization itself?
What if the person who saved it from being lost forever had to fight to keep every difficult word intact?
What if 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?
What if the oldest truth in the world has always been this: the people who survive are the people who listen?
Atra-Hasis - The First Flood Story moves between two worlds simultaneously:
- 8000 BCE - 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
- 1760 BCE - 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
- Grounded in real archaeology, real clay tablets, and real historical scholarship
- Written to be felt rather than studied
- For adults, young adults, and anyone who wants history to be alive
- Beyond His Story We Stand series - a chronological journey through human history told through the people who lived it
