This major biblical city has been identified in the native Akkadian language as Babili. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel …” (Genesis 10:8-10).īabel (or Babylon) was the genesis of Nimrod’s empire. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. “And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. One notable figure appears-Noah’s great-grandson, Nimrod. After the Flood, which dates to sometime during the 2300s b.c., Noah’s family began to expand from the mountains of Anatolia down into Mesopotamia. In fact, various ancient references to this story have been found all over the world! The Genesis Account If that is the case, then along with a flood story we also ought to find similar traditions to a tower of Babel or confusion of language across the globe. According to Genesis 11, it was only after building the tower of Babel, after the languages of the peoples were confused, that mankind really began to disperse and spread out over the Earth. Yet what about the story of the tower of Babel and confusion of the languages? This occurred not many generations after the Flood. This is indeed the case-ancient tracts dating back as much as 4,000 years record the Flood, as well as various stories and traditions preserved from the Middle East to China, Africa to the Pacific, Scandinavia to the Americas. If this is true, then traditions of a great flood ought to be found among populations all over the world. A literal reading of the biblical account means that all humanity now in existence came from those eight people within the ark who survived the Flood.
Perhaps you’ve read our article on the great Flood. Some believe it to be historically accurate others believe it to be myth-just an odd biblical story invented long after the fact by a small civilization on the edge of the Mediterranean.
Jewish and Christian children grow up familiar with the story. The story of the tower of Babel and subsequent confusion of the languages is a well-known biblical account.
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