Tower of Babel
biblical pericope about hubris and the origin of languages
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Summary
Tower of Babel is a Hebrew Bible episode[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Religion or worldview: Christianity[3], Judaism[4]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Babylon[5]
- Country: Babylonia[6]
- Instance of: artistic theme[7], narrative motif[8], myth of origins[9]
- Named after: tower of Babel[10]
- Part of: Genesis 11[11]
- Commons category: Tower of Babel[12]
- Narrative location: tower of Babel[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tower of Babel[14]
- Main subject: tower of Babel[15], language[16], hubris[17], unity[18], chaos[19]
- Depicted by: Tower of Babel[20]
- Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[22], Dictionnaire Infernal[23], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[26], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[27], The New Student's Reference Work[28], jw.org[29]
- Has effect: linguistic diversity[30]
- Different from: Wikipedia:Babel[31], Q4102147[32], babbling[33]
- Name: torre di Nebrot[34], Tour de Babel[35]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for Tower of Babel include it[36], a woodcut print[37], founded in 1928[38] and Babel fish[39], a fictional fish[40].
Why It Matters
Tower of Babel is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]
Entities named for it include it[36], a woodcut print[37], founded in 1928[38] and Babel fish[39], a fictional fish[40].