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The chapter following the story of the Tower of Babel brings us God’s calling of Abram away “from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.” Where might God be calling us amid ...
The world’s first cities, according to the Book of Genesis, were built by Nimrod, a “man of might,” after the flood that wiped out nearly all of humanity. They were spectacular — likely ...
Conceived as a monument to the Arab city-state's economic ambitions, the Burj today looks more like a modern-day Tower of Babel.
That reach for the sky has some critics wondering if the Burj Dubai will turn out to be a modern-day Tower of Babel. They say that Dubai, once an undeveloped dot on the desert map, is taking its ...
The New York Times profiles guitarist Gary Lucas on the occasion of his new CD, “The Ordeal of Civility.” Argentine artist Marta Minujine has built a 25-meter Tower of Babel out of 30,000 books.
The Tower of Babel: Can the Dark Knight Get Any Darker? Naturally, Batman’s choices in “Tower of Babel” sparked considerable debate within the fandom, much of it critical.
That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confounded the speech of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
This week, we are studying the section of the Bible that includes the Flood and Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6:9-11:32) At the end of the section is the important story of the Tower of Babel in 9 short ...
The sin of the Tower of Babel generation, say modern-day rabbinic commentators like Samson Raphael Hirsch and Joseph B. Soloveitchik, was not their technology but their warped ideology of ...