This reading of the text sees God's actions not as a punishment for pride, but as an etiology of, presenting Babel as the.Authorship and source criticism Tradition attributes the whole of the to however, in the late 19th century, the was proposed.ДЄfrica According to, the Africans whom he met living near in 1849 had such a tradition, but with the builders' heads getting 'cracked by the fall of the scaffolding'. There have, however, been some contemporary challenges to this classical interpretation, with emphasis placed on the explicit motive of cultural and linguistic homogeneity mentioned in the narrative (v.

The 1st-century Jewish interpretation found in explains the construction of the tower as a act of defiance against God ordered by the arrogant tyrant. God was concerned that humans had blasphemed by building the tower to avoid a second flood so God brought into existence multiple languages.: 51 Thus, humans were divided into linguistic groups, unable to understand one another.Themes The story's theme of competition between God and humans appears elsewhere in Genesis, in the story of in the. Etiologies are narratives that explain the origin of a custom, ritual, geographical feature, name, or other phenomenon.: 426 The story of the Tower of Babel explains the origins of the multiplicity of languages. Genesis 11:1вЂ“9 Etymology The phrase 'Tower of Babel' does not appear in the it is always 'the city and the tower' ( ЧђЦ¶ЧЄ-Ч”ЦёЧўЦґЧ™ЧЁ Ч•Ц°ЧђЦ¶ЧЄ-Ч”Ц·ЧћЦґЦјЧ’Ц°Ч“ЦёЦјЧњ) or just 'the city' ( Ч”ЦёЧўЦґЧ™ЧЁ).Д¬omposition Genre The narrative of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11.1вЂ“9) is an or explanation of a phenomenon. 1370s) depiction of the construction of the tower1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there.3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly.

A story with some similar elements is told in. There they agree to build a and a tall enough to reach., observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably the, a dedicated to the god in. By (1563)The Tower of Babel (: ЧћЦґЧ’Ц°Ч“Ц·ЦјЧњ Ч‘ЦёЦјЧ‘Ц¶ЧњвЂЋ, Migdal Bavel) narrative in 11:1вЂ“9 is an meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.According to the story, a united in the generations following the, speaking a single language and migrating westward, comes to the land of ( Ч©ЦґЧЃЧ Ц°ЧўЦёЧЁ).

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