15 Nikel, "Genesis und Keilschriftforschung", 188 sqq. "The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia", I, pl. Oppert finds an allusion to the Tower of Babel in a text of Nabuchodonosor but this opinion is hardly more than a theory (cf. Delitzch pointed out that the translation of the precise words which determine the meaning of the text is most uncertain (Smith-Delitzsch. Authorities like George Smith, Chad Boscawen, and Sayce believed they had discovered a reference to the Tower of Babel but Fr. Thus far no Babylonian document has been discovered which refers clearly to the subject. This is the Biblical account of the Tower of Babel. As their growing number forced them to live in localities more and more distant from their patriarchal homes, "they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands." The work was soon fairly under way "and they had brick instead of stones, and slime (asphalt) instead of mortar." But God confounded their tongue, so that they did not understand one another's speech, and thus scattered them from that place into all lands, and they ceased to build the city. The descendants of Noah had migrated from the "east" ( Armenia) first southward, along the course of the Tigris, then westward across the Tigris into "a plain in the land of Sennar". The "Tower of Babel" is the name of the building mentioned in Genesis 11:9. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download.
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