What’s wrong with the Tower of Babel?

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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