Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.

According to a story, a united human quality speaking a single language in addition to migrating eastward, comes to the land of Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand regarded and described separately. other, and scatters them around the world.

Some advanced scholars produce associated the Tower of Babel with required structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat committed to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in Babylon. A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta.

Etymology

The phrase "Tower of Babel" does not appear in the Babylon is uncertain. The native, Akkadian do of the city was Bāb-ilim, meaning "gate of God". However, that form and interpretation itself are now usually thought to be the written of an Akkadian folk etymology applied to an earlier form of the name, Babilla, of unknown meaning and probably non-Semitic origin. According to the Bible, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew verb בָּלַ֥ל bālal, meaning to jumble or to confuse.