babel

     

Babel (Hebrew: בָּבֶל‎; Bavel) (Arabic: بابل; Babel) is the name use in the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an for the city of Babylon (Akkadian Babilu), notable in Genesis as the location of the Tower of Babel.

Trivia about babel

  • Elias Canetti's "Die Blendung" has been published in English under the Biblical title "The Tower of" this
  • Genesis 11:9 says that at this city the Lord did "confound the language of all the Earth"
  • Biblical tower town (5)
  • Its name is derived from the fact that "The Lord did there confound the language of all the Earth"
  • A shooting in Morocco touches off a story spanning 3 continents in this 2006 Gonzalez Inarritu film

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