Noah's Ark for Atrahasis', Utnapishtim's, and Noah's ark, respectively (a difference of 4%). This has led professor Finkel to conclude that "the iconic story of the Flood, Noah, and the Ark as we know it today certainly originated in the landscape of ancient Mesopotamia, modern Iraq." Linguistic parallels between Noah's ark and the ark of the Babylonian flood-hero Atrahasis have also been noted. The word used for "pitch" (sealing tar or resin) in Genesis is not the normal Hebrew word, but is closely related to the word used in the Babylonian story. Likewise, the Hebrew word for "ark" ("tevah") is nearly identical
Book of Noah En. 106-107 On these chapters may have followed Eth. En. 6-11., 65-69:25, 60, 41:3-8, 43-44, 54:7-55:2; Jubilees 7:26-39, 10:1-15. The Hebrew "Book of Noah", a later work, is printed in Adolf Jellinek's "Bet ha-Midrasch", 3:155-156, and translated into German in Rönsch, "Das Buch der Jubiläen", 385-387. It is based on the part of the above Book of Noah which is preserved in the "Book of Jubilees". The portion of this Hebrew work which is derived from the older work is reprinted in Charles's "Ethiopic Version of the Hebrew Book of Jubilees", p. 179. James Charlesworth writes (footnotes used for clarity)