Genesis 11: Babel, Languages, Nations

[@garrenwork2924]

Have you considered the "tower" was something resembling the Internet vs a building? The Internet seems like the tower of babble to me. Brings the world together under a common language.

[@BoldLionMinistries]

Is history repeating itself? Let me know if you hear someone on the internet prattling off with unintelligible nonsense! 😆

[@BoldLionMinistries]

(I think you're definitely onto something with those parallels).

[@josephr4761]

There is nothing new under the sun.

[@ramibakkar]

Everything happened in North of Syria Not in Iraq Babel was Harran in north of Syria not in Iraq Land of Shiar is called later Aram Nahrin in north of Syria not in Iraq Ur Kasdim where Abraham come from is Urfa in north of Syria not Ur of Iraq

[@BoldLionMinistries]

Interesting. I'm seeing lots of debate about the location of the cities mentioned. Does it make a difference?

[@ramibakkar]

@@BoldLionMinistries Yes it make big deference Civilizations Started in Syria Not in Iraq … Iraq history started 4000 bc only … Syrian history 12000 bc or more

[@ProfezorSnayp]

Biblical story of the Tower of Babel is an allegory and shouldn't be taken literally. Just like 99% of the Old Testament.

[@BoldLionMinistries]

An allegory for what?

[@ProfezorSnayp]

@@BoldLionMinistries For disobeying god and as a result being punished by him. Also a nice simplistic explanation to why people speak different languages. A simple story for simple people.

[@TheVelvetTV_Riesenglied]

@@ProfezorSnayp East of Israel were a lot of cultures that build ziggurats aka towers like the ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Elamites, Eblaites and Babylonians. They all spoke different languages but build towers - why? Because they originated from one culture that build a big tower but their language got confused That's the story of the tower of Babel aka Babylon.

[@ProfezorSnayp]

​@@TheVelvetTV_Riesenglied The cultures you mentioned: Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, are separated by hundreds of years and their languages have little in common. Sumerian and Akkadian for example are completely unintelligible to each other. If they descent from one single culture, there would be some similarities and root words. Towers were built by almost every culture on the planet. Is this evidence for some common cultural ancestry? Or rather evidence that people all over the world discover the same architectural principles? Your assumption is based on the biblical story and you choose historical facts to fit your narrative. That's not how archaeology works. Also, there are languages much, much older than the biblical story of Tower of Babel. Ancient Chinese or ancient Egyptian for example. They predate the Bible by thousands of years. How do they fit into your narrative?

[@brysonmartin795]

​@@ProfezorSnayp 🧢🧢🧢