The story's theme of competition between God and humans appears elsewhere in Genesis, in the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. : 51 Thus, humans were divided into linguistic groups, unable to understand one another. God was concerned that humans had blasphemed by building the tower to avoid a second flood so God brought into existence multiple languages.
: 426 The story of the Tower of Babel explains the origins of the multiplicity of languages. Etiologies are narratives that explain the origin of a custom, ritual, geographical feature, name, or other phenomenon. The narrative of the tower of Babel Genesis 11:1–9 is an etiology or explanation of a phenomenon. Five, the tower was very probably a ziggurat." Composition Genre Three, the tower was constructed ofīaked brick (v. Two, the event involved the building of a city with a tower (vv. Some scholars use internal and external evidence to offer 3500-3000 BC as a likely range for the date of the tower, based on 5 details included in the narrative: "One, the event took place in Shinar, at Babylon in particular (vv. According to the Bible, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew verb בָּלַ֥ל ( bālal), meaning to jumble or to confuse. However, that form and interpretation itself are now usually thought to be the result of an Akkadian folk etymology applied to an earlier form of the name, Babilla, of unknown meaning and probably non-Semitic origin. The native, Akkadian name of the city was Bāb-ilim, meaning "gate of God". The original derivation of the name Babel (also the Hebrew name for Babylon) is uncertain.
The phrase "Tower of Babel" does not appear in the Bible it is always "the city and the tower" ( אֶת-הָעִיר וְאֶת-הַמִּגְדָּל) or just "the city" ( הָעִיר). And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.Ĥ And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.ĥ And the L ORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.Ħ And the L ORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.ħ Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.Ĩ So the L ORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.ĩ Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the L ORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the L ORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 1370s) depiction of the construction of the towerġ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.Ģ 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.ģ And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly.
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