The tale of the Tower of Babel from the book of Genesis illustrates this point. Construction on the tower has to stop when people can no longer understand each other. But perhaps the inability to ...

This is right before the story of the tower of Babel. It has been argued, however, that Genesis Chapters 10 and 11 are chronological, and that differentiation of language was already cited several ...

A general reference to the biblical story, as well as a literary one to George Steiner’s linguistic treatise After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (1975), the mythical tower stands ...

However, a second narrative, known colloquially as “The Tower of Babel,” is just as compelling. These nine verses describe a people who shared a common language gathering in the land of Shinar and ...

That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world” (Gn 11:8-9). In today’s first reading, we hear the story of the Tower of Babel. The descendants of ...