Tower of Babel
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The biblical story of the Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable recorded in Genesis 11 meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures.
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563)
Late medieval German depiction of the Tower being constructed, from a manuscript of Rudolf von Ems' Weltchronik, cgm 5 fol. 29r (c. 1370s)
Hanging Gardens of Babylon (19th-century illustration), depicts the Tower of Babel in the background.
Tower of Babel, by Lucas van Valckenborch, 1594, Louvre Museum
Yahweh
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Yahweh was an ancient Semitic deity in the southeastern ancient Levant that became the national god of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel-Samaria and Judah. Although there is no clear consensus regarding
Tower of Babel
…race speaking a single language migrates to Shinar (Lower Mesopotamia), where they agree to build a great city with a tower that would reach the sky. Yahweh, observing these efforts and remarking on humanity's power in unity, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other and scatters…
God on the Winged Wheel coin
Uriyahu inscription, Khirbet el-Qom, 8th c. BCE, "Blessed is/be Uriyahu by Yahweh"
Seal of Hezekiah, 727 to 698. The winged disk is thought to represent Yahweh.
Winged disk seal reproduced in the Jewish Encyclopedia, 1906