The Tower of Babel: Biblical Archaeology

Did the Tower of Babel exist or was it just a myth made up by Jewish authors centuries later?

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Sources:
Gwendolyn Leick - The Babylonians: an Introduction

John H. Walton - Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament

Eric Orlin - The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions

Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejet - Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

Jean Bottero - Religions in Ancient Mesopotamia

Jean Bottero - Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia

A. R. George - Babylonian Topographical Texts

Fuad Safar - Eridu

Henry Wright - Southern Margins Of Sumer: Archaeological Survey Of The
Area Of Eridu And Ur

Hermon Vanstiphout and Jerrold S. Cooper - Epics of Sumerian Kings: the Matter of Aratta

Richard S. Hess &
David Toshio Tsumura - I Studied Inscriptions from before
the Flood

#Babylon #Ancient #Christianity

[tomplays]

My wife has struggled to understand my love of apologetics and why I spend so much time watching your content, until I showed her this. Biblical Archaeology is her thing and she loved it! Thanks IP, keep up the good work

[picklechinahboi]

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[KarstenJohansson]

One of the problems with Churches and "Sunday School" is that they teach these stories in a way that presupposes mythology. I'm sure everyone, even kids, wonder how God could be worried about a tower so tall it could reach Heaven, when today we are flying robots to other planets. But if they taught it like this video's presented theory, it would be far more understandable and believable. Sometimes the Church is its own undoing.

[hewhositsuponfroggychair]

Who cares about the guy in the video who did hours of research - I'm here for the real archeologists in the comments!

[awaf]

As a person who is an iraqi, I loved hearing about this,

In case someone doesn't know, nowadays iraqis consider themselves at least partially linked to the ancient babylon, sumer and akkad

[Pandemiclui]

i cant wrap around how old humanity is, and what was probably before that. great video, my dude.

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[razie_]

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[jeremiahvalle]

Satisfaction and excitement, two feelings from being able to recognize the paintings on first glance. My undergrad paper on Pieter Bruegel's Tower of Babel series and my degree not wasted lol

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[thief]

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[DrOSami]

I'm from Iraq and visited Babylon. People there love this city and proud of it. They even named a province after Babylon.

[Kuudere-Kun]

It's possible both readings of the Lord of Arrata text are valid, that it's a prophecy of the future returning to how things were in the past.

[VTPSTTU]

The existence and location of the tower is less interesting than the mechanism of confusing the languages. As you said, proving that archeologically is nearly impossible. I wonder whether they might have had some dispute about measurement systems that would be necessary in building this kind of project. Obviously, the imperial and metric systems didn't exist back then, but a similar conflict could have arisen. That would make continuing this kind of project difficult or impossible.

[WindBringsMemories]

These are real hidden gems! Thank you so much for sharing this! I would never have been able to figure these things out myself

[joelpierce]

The way he pronounces "Babel" bothers me. Even if someone tells me it's right, everything in me says it should be pronounced like "babble."

[dragonbrandoncook]

So some things to note... Fire baked bricks were indeed developed around 4000 BCE( 4400 actual) but they were only used in china at that time... They didn't start making an appearance in the middle east for like a millennia later...
Then the ziggurat itself although was made of fire baked bricks didn't start being built until 2112 at the earliest by a king named Ur-Nammu and was completed by king Shulgi which reigned from 2094-2047... How we know this is we literally found the names inscribed on an artifact found inside the temple and we know when they ruled cause we found other artifacts that corresponded names to years... This is important cause unanimously scholars agree temple 1 started construction around 5500 BCE and was Unfortunately made of clay...
The last thing is the leading theory for abandonment consistently was over use of land...