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[Bible] Episode 237: Sam Boyd - What the Tower of Babel Is Really About

The Bible For Normal People

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The Tower of Babel and the Tower of Arata

When the Bible is edited with two stories put together in Genesis 10, there's a story from what we call the priestly source. And so when you read it as like unfolding chronologies, what else could Genesis 11 be? A story about multilingualism and how people's read. Jay Parini: If we connected to the call of Abram, maybe there's some interesting things there.

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