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Tower Of Babel (other)
The Tower of Babel in the Old Testament was a tower built by a united humanity in an attempt to reach the heavens. Tower of Babel may also refer to: Artwork * ''The Tower of Babel'' (Brueghel), painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder * ''The Tower of Babel'' (M. C. Escher), woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher Games * ''Tower of Babel'' (board game), board game by Reiner Knizia * ''Tower of Babel'' (1986 video game), a video game by Namco for the Famicom and the Sharp X68000 * ''Tower of Babel'' (1989 video game), computer game for the Amiga, Atari ST and Acorn Archimedes * The Tower of Babel, a location in the RPG ''Final Fantasy IV'', translated as the Tower of Babil * The Tower of Babel, a temple to the god Marduk in ''Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine'' * The Tower of Babel, a location in the Super NES game ''Illusion of Gaia'' Literature * ''Babel Tower'', an A. S. Byatt novel published in 1996 * JLA: Tower of Babel, a Justice League of America story arc * "Tower of Baby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of Babel
The Tower of Babel ( he, , ''Mīgdal Bāḇel'') narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (). There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world. Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in Babylon. A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in ''Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta''. Narrative Etymology The phrase "Tower of Babel" does not appear in the Bible; it is always "the city and the tower" () or just "the city" (). The original derivation of the name Babel (also the Hebrew name for B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of Babylon (story)
"Tower of Babylon" is a science fantasy novelette by American writer Ted Chiang, published in 1990. The story revisits the tower of Babel myth as a construction megaproject, in a setting where the principles of pre-scientific cosmology (the geocentric model, celestial spheres, etc.) are literally true. It is Chiang's first published work. The story won the 1991 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and was reprinted in Chiang's 2002 anthology, '' Stories of Your Life and Others''. Synopsis Hillalum is a miner from Elam who has been summoned to the Tower of Babylon, an enormous brick tower that has been in continuous construction for centuries. He and his colleagues have been hired to dig through the Vault of Heaven to discover Yahweh's creation. Hillalum alone passes safely through the Vault. After a perilous journey ever-upwards, he finds that he has reemerged back at the surface, some distance from the Tower, rather than in Heaven as expected. Reception "Tower" won the 1991 Nebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tower Of Babel (Dilbert Episode)
''Dilbert'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Adelaide Productions, Idbox and United Media, and distributed by Columbia TriStar Television. The series is an adaptation of the comic strip of the same name by Scott Adams, who also served as executive producer and showrunner for the series along with former ''Seinfeld'' writer Larry Charles. The first episode was broadcast on January 25, 1999, and was UPN's highest-rated comedy series premiere at that point in the network's history; it lasted two seasons with thirty episodes on the network and won a Primetime Emmy before its cancellation. Synopsis The series follows the adventures of a middle-aged white-collar office worker, named Dilbert, who is extremely intelligent in regards to all things that fall within the boundaries of electrical engineering. Despite his intelligence he is unable to question certain processes that he believes to be inefficient, due to his lack of power within the organization. Thus, he is consiste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
