"Noah's Ark: An Annotated Encyclopedia of Every Animal Species in the Hebrew Bible provides a wealth of information on each animal in the biblical text, including taxonomic designation, interesting zoological information, references to legends in Near Eastern mythology, rabbinic insights found in the Talmud, Midrash, and halacha (Jewish law), and a complete concordance that locates each time the species appears in the Holy Scriptures."--BOOK JACKET.