Tower of Babel
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from De Toren van Babel)
|
Related e |
|
Wikipedia
Featured:  Illustration: Portrait fantaisiste du marquis de Sade (1866) by H. Biberstein |
In the Bible, a tower erected at Babel by the descendants of Noah's son Ham to reach the sky, and whose completion God thwarted by making the workers speak different languages so that they were unable to understand one another.
[edit]
See also
- Babel fish
- Babylonia
- Borsippa
- Diana Al-Hadid
- Linguistic divergence
- Origin of language
- The Tower (Tarot card), a Tarot trump or "Major Arcana" card
- Sons of Noah
- Space tower
- Space elevator
- The Tower of Babel (Brueghel)
- Tower of Babel (M. C. Escher)
- Etemenanki
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Tower of Babel" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
