Tower of Babel

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GE <sup>11:8</sup> So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. <sup>9</sup> That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.}}
 
GE <sup>11:8</sup> So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. <sup>9</sup> That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.}}
 
[[Image:Choghazanbil2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Dur-Untash, or Choqa Zanbil, in present day Iran built in the 13th century BC]]
 
[[Image:Choghazanbil2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Dur-Untash, or Choqa Zanbil, in present day Iran built in the 13th century BC]]
The Tower of Babel as an explanation for the origins of languages is considered absurd by everyone except biblical literalists. Some biblical scholars believe that the tower myth was based on the ziggurats found in Mesopotamia.
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The Tower of Babel as an explanation for the origins of languages is considered absurd by everyone except biblical literalists. Some biblical scholars believe that the tower myth was based on the ziggurats found in Mesopotamia.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_babel</ref>  This is a plausible basis for the physical description of the tower, but the link to language origins has been rendered obsolete by modern linguistic studies.
  
  
In a vain attempt to provide so called "evidence", true believers have attempted to use photographs of ziggurats (shown right) to prove their case!
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Revision as of 16:20, 31 July 2007

One artist's rendition of the myth.

The "Tower of Babel" story found in Genesis and is referenced by some biblical literaliststo give a pre-scientific explanation for the existence of languages.

Origins

The myth the Tower of Babel is contained in Genesis.

GE 11:3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

GE 11:5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

GE 11:8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Dur-Untash, or Choqa Zanbil, in present day Iran built in the 13th century BC

The Tower of Babel as an explanation for the origins of languages is considered absurd by everyone except biblical literalists. Some biblical scholars believe that the tower myth was based on the ziggurats found in Mesopotamia.[1] This is a plausible basis for the physical description of the tower, but the link to language origins has been rendered obsolete by modern linguistic studies.


  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_babel
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