Description Includes pictures Includes contemporary accounts Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Tower of Babel is arguably among the most well-known allegories of the Old Testament.
It was later du.
With the architects scattered around the globe and now unable to understand one another, construction of the partially built ziggurat came screeching to a halt.
When they awoke, the bewildered residents of the newly birthed nations were speaking in different tongues.
Thus, as the people slept, God reached down and scooped up handfuls of the slumbering Mesopotamians and strewed them across the continents, creating 70 different nations and tribes.
The overblown pomposity and conceit of His subjects had to be ceased at once, lest they stray further away from Him.
According to the Bible, God was far from impressed, and to add insult to injury, the architects behind this attempt deliberately opted for man-made materials, such as brick and tar, rather than stone, timber, and other natural building blocks gifted to them by God.
With this tower, they intended to "make a name for" mankind and the untouchable abilities of mere mortals, thereby severing their relationship with God their Creator for good.
The only way to prevail over this slump, believed a particularly enterprising group of individuals, was to construct a colossal ziggurat (a "rectangular, stepped tower") That would ascend past the clouds and into the heavens.
Naturally, the pride of the Mesopotamian residents burgeoned, but their contentment, poisoned by their greed and ambition, began to decline.
The population multiplied rapidly over the years, and the city\'s inhabitants fostered the growth of their culture and enhancing the infrastructure of their territories, made easier by the existence of only one common language.
As told by the Book of Genesis, the story revolves around a post-flood batch of Noah\'s descendants who dwelled in Babylon\'s Mesopotami, a city erected by King Nimrod.
Description Includes pictures Includes contemporary accounts Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Tower of Babel is arguably among the most well-known allegories of the Old Testament
