The Story of the Tower of Babel

With assyria broken and nineveh destroyed, the city of babylon could then assert itself as the primary power center of the civilized world. Its only rival after the conquest of assyria was egypt, which babylon destroyed just seven years later. After numerous fallings out with the great babylonian king, nebuchadnezzar, the second a large population of judaites were deported and forced to live in theCity of babylon. There they continued work on the earliest books of the old testament, augmenting, editing and revising ancestral stories and systemizing the religion that would later be called judaism. The real tower of babel was a