What’s wrong with the Tower of Babel?

What’s wrong with the Tower of Babel? October 26, 2011

At first glance, the famous story that closes out this week’s reading seems pretty straightforward. The men of Babel build a tower to Heaven. God doesn’t like being challenged this way, so He disperses them and confounds their tongues. It’s a parable, a story of origins—of human language and perhaps of Babylonia—as well as a rejection of hubris.

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