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A man is appointed by God to carry out a crucial mission of rescue before a calamitous flood destroys the world.

This milestone study -- the first and still the most popular work on Atlantis -- has influenced countless scholars the world over since its publication in 1882. This edition of Atlantis: The Antediluvian World reproduces the illustrated classic that established the modern science of Atlantology -- research based on the belief that there once existed opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea the remnant of an Atlantic continent which was home to...

A simple retelling of the Bible story in which Noah builds an ark and saves two of each kind of animal from the great Flood.

"Noe says, -I must build a boat. -A boat, she says. -A ship, more like. I'll need the boys to help, he adds as an afterthought. -We're leagues from the sea, she says, or any river big enough to warrant a boat. This conversation is making Noe impatient. -I've no need to explain myself to you. -And when you're done, she says carefully, we'll be taking this ship to the sea somehow? As usual, Noe's impatience fades quickly. -We'll not be going to...

In Search of Easter: explores the surprisingly diverse accounts of Jesus' resurrection. Quest for Noah's Flood: joins Titanic discoverer Dr. Robert Ballard as he embarks on a voyage to the Black Sea, where history mingles with ages-old tales of a catastrophic flood.

Describes how Noah built his ark and saved specimens of all the animals from the great flood.

"With over ten years of research and study, a completely new interpretation of Plato's writings on Atlantis has finally been published. Using over a dozen different scholarly translations and interpretations of Plato's Timaeus and Critias - the texts that described the lost civilization of Atlantis, a completely new singular interpretation of Plato's Atlantis story has been made. Included with this new interpretation, are the latest discoveries that...

Retells the story of the great flood with which God destroyed all the world, except Noah, his family, and the animals he carried on the Ark.

In the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And, the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights. The great Biblical flood so described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. In the 19th century the English archbishop James Ussher established it as having happened...

"Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. Following up on his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, the author interprets the famous Gilgamesh epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament...