Articles tagged with: Tower of Babel

Are the opening chapters of Genesis a science textbook, or something much more radical? Discover how the biblical scribes used the stories of Creation, the Flood, and the Tower of Babel as a brilliant, anti-imperial polemic against the religion of the Babylonian Empire.

Why do we speak different languages? Where did the bitter rivalry between ancient nations come from? Discover how biblical scribes used “etiology”—retroactive origin stories—to explain the bizarre geological and political realities of the ancient Near East.

The Tower of Babel wasn’t a medieval spire; it was a ruined Babylonian ziggurat. Discover how exiled Judean scribes used Mesopotamian architecture to craft a brilliant, anti-imperial satire.