Irving Finkel
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Appearances Over Time
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I mean, what are you going to do?
The most interesting thing is this Atrahasis in the 1700 text.
He wasn't a king and he wasn't a sailor or a boat builder.
So how comes this clever God who wants to find someone to build, wouldn't you go for a look in the yellow pages for a boat building company and say, listen, fellow, I've got a deal.
No, he had to tell him, this is the blueprint.
This is the shape.
You need all this.
You need all that.
You've got to measure it and all that.
It's a very interesting thing.
It is.
It is a great myth.
That was something else.
There were three blokes who did it.
And they were specialists in reconstructing medieval Arab boats.
Because quite often they're found in the mud or bits, or they have information.
So they were at home in it.
And we built it on a small lagoon in Kerala.
It was just the most unbelievably wonderful thing because they used the instructions as a blueprint.
They made it about a third of the size of the original, a pretty huge thing.