Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known historical structures and accounts, particularly from ancient Mesopotamia. The most widely attributed inspiration is Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the god Marduk in Babylon, [6] …

2025年3月27日 · Tower of Babel, in biblical literature, structure built in the land of Shinar (Babylonia) some time after the Deluge. The story of its construction, given in Genesis 11:1–9, appears to be an attempt to explain the existence of diverse human languages.

2019年3月6日 · One of the many fantastic stories in the Book of Genesis is the Tower of Babel, a tall construction made in Babylonia after the Deluge. The gist of the story is: All human beings used to speak the same language. As they came to settle in Mesopotamia, they decided to build a city with a tower to reach the heavens.

2024年3月11日 · Babylon consistently appears in the Bible narrative. First, when mankind rebels against God right after the Flood. God told humanity to spread throughout the earth, but they stayed put and, in defiance, built a tower to reach the heavens (more on this in a moment).

In many ways, the Tower of Babel is a kind of ‘just so’ story about how the world came to have many languages. Let’s take a closer look at the legend of the Tower of Babel and offer an analysis of both its religious significance and its historical foundation.

巴别塔，又称 巴比伦塔 、 通天塔。 是的，就是四大文明古国的古巴比伦修建的塔。 宗教传说中的高塔“巴别塔”是《圣经·旧约·创世记》第11章故事中人们建造的塔。 根据篇章记载，当时人类联合起来兴建希望能通往天堂的高塔；为了阻止人类的计划，上帝让人类说不同的语言，使人类相互之间不能沟通，计划因此失败，人类自此各散东西。 此事件，为世上出现不同语言和种族提供解释。 不过，考古的发现和历史记载证实这并非神话，它确实存在过。 巴别塔是新巴比伦王国的国 …

Long ago, the once-mighty Babylon and its gargantuan tower sunk into the sands of the Iraqi desert and disappeared. Archaeologists have been working ceaselessly and successfully since 1811 to excavate the capital of the Ancient World. It was aerial photography, however, that provided the first real clues as to the location of the tower.

The Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל, Migdal Bavel) story in Genesis 11:1–9 is a story that explains why the world's peoples speak different languages. [1][2][3][4] According to the story, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating westward, comes to the land of Shinar (שִׁנְעָר).

巴别塔，也叫巴比伦塔，是《圣经 · 旧约 · 创世记》第11章故事中人们建造的 塔。 根据《圣经 ·旧约·创世记》篇章记载，当时人类联合起来兴建希望能通往天堂的高塔；为了阻止人类的计划，上帝让人类说不同的语言，使人类相互之间不能沟通，计划因此失败，人类自此各散东西。 此事件，为世上出现不同语言和种族提供解释。 巴别塔，也叫巴比伦塔，是《圣经·旧约·创世记》第11章故事中人们建造的塔。

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. 10 This is the account of Shem’s family line.