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45: 935:, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power... Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God; and they built a tower, neither sparing any pains, nor being in any degree negligent about the work: and, by reason of the multitude of hands employed in it, it grew very high, sooner than any one could expect; but the thickness of it was so great, and it was so strongly built, that thereby its great height seemed, upon the view, to be less than it really was. It was built of burnt brick, cemented together with mortar, made of 939:, that it might not be liable to admit water. When God saw that they acted so madly, he did not resolve to destroy them utterly, since they were not grown wiser by the destruction of the former sinners ; but he caused a tumult among them, by producing in them diverse languages, and causing that, through the multitude of those languages, they should not be able to understand one another. The place wherein they built the tower is now called Babylon, because of the confusion of that language which they readily understood before; for the Hebrews mean by the word Babel, confusion. The 527:(2,000 kg per cubic metre) and the crushing strength of these materials is generally rather better than 6,000 lbs per square inch or 40 mega-pascals. Elementary arithmetic shows that a tower with parallel walls could have been built to a height of 2.1 km (1.3 mi) before the bricks at the bottom were crushed. However, by making the walls taper towards the top they ... could well have been built to a height where the men of Shinnar would run short of oxygen and had difficulty in breathing before the brick walls crushed beneath their own dead weight." 1236: 1020: 1916:. He wrote that he was told when the light of the Sun first appeared upon the land, giants appeared and set off in search of the Sun. Not finding it, they built a tower to reach the sky. An angered God of the Heavens called upon the inhabitants of the sky, who destroyed the tower and scattered its inhabitants. The story was not related to either a flood or the confusion of languages, although Frazer connects its construction and the scattering of the giants with the Tower of Babel. 299: 1854: 2136:, in a flashback, plays upon themes of lack of communication between the designers of the tower and the workers who are constructing it. The short scene states how the words used to glorify the tower's construction by its designers took on totally different, oppressive meanings to the workers. This led to its destruction as they rose up against the designers because of the insufferable working conditions. The appearance of the tower was modeled after 536: 4918: 2393: 1186: 1156:. Church apologists have also supported this connection and argue the reality of the Tower of Babel: "Although there are many in our day who consider the accounts of the Flood and tower of Babel to be fiction, Latter-day Saints affirm their reality." In either case, the church firmly believes in the factual nature of at least one "great tower" built in the region of ancient Sumer/Assyria/Babylonia. 653: 1499:) provides 15 names for Japheth's descendants, 30 for Ham's, and 27 for Shem's, these figures became established as the 72 languages resulting from the confusion at Babel—although the exact listing of these languages changed over time. (The LXX Bible has two additional names, Elisa and Cainan, not found in the Masoretic text of this chapter, so early rabbinic traditions, such as the 2407: 960:, describes the just rewards of sinners and the righteous in the afterlife. Among the sinners are those who instigated the Tower of Babel. In the account, Baruch is first taken (in a vision) to see the resting place of the souls of "those who built the tower of strife against God, and the Lord banished them." Next he is shown another place, and there, occupying the form of dogs, 1181:
be protected from the turbulent chaos. And the womb planned these things according to my will, that she might pour forth completely. A tower came to be through the demons. The darkness was disturbed by his loss. He loosened the muscles of the womb. And the demon who was going to enter the tower was protected so that the races might continue to acquire coherence through him.
891: 2421: 1388:). Beginning in Renaissance Europe, priority over Hebrew was claimed for the alleged Japhetic languages, which were supposedly never corrupted because their speakers had not participated in the construction of the Tower of Babel. Among the candidates for a living descendant of the Adamic language were: 334:) resulting from the construction of the Tower of Babel accounts for the fragmentation of human languages: God was concerned that humans had blasphemed by building the tower to avoid a second flood and so God brought into existence multiple languages, rendering humanity unable to understand each other. 3319:, p. 11 "How much history lies behind the story of Genesis? Because the action of the primeval story is not represented as taking place on the plane of ordinary human history and has so many affinities with ancient mythology, it is very far-fetched to speak of its narratives as historical at all." 1180:
And he caused the flood, and he destroyed your (Shem's) race, to take the light and to take away from faith. But I proclaimed quickly by the mouth of the demon that a tower come up to be up to the particle of light, which was left in the demons and their race - which was water - that the demon might
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offers many different accounts of other causes for building the Tower of Babel, and of the intentions of its builders. According to one midrash the builders of the Tower, called "the generation of secession" in the Jewish sources, said: "God has no right to choose the upper world for Himself, and to
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provides yet another figure – quoting Isidore, he says that the tower was 5,164 paces high, or 7.6 km (4.7 mi), and quoting Josephus that the tower was wider than it was high, more like a mountain than a tower. He also quotes unnamed authors who say that the spiral path was so wide that it
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explained this apparent contradiction by arguing that the story "without mentioning it, goes back to tell how it came about that the one language common to all men was broken up into many tongues". Modern scholarship has traditionally held that the two chapters were written by different sources, the
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Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone and bitumen for mortar. Then
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Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God as if it were through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage
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There have been some contemporary challenges to this classical interpretation, with emphasis placed on the explicit motive of cultural and linguistic homogeneity mentioned in the narrative (v. 1, 4, 6); this reading of the text sees God's actions not as a punishment for pride, but as an etiology of
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said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech." So
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In the biblical introduction of the Tower of Babel account, in Genesis 11:1, it is said that everyone on Earth spoke the same language, but this is inconsistent with the biblical description of the post-Noahic world described in Genesis 10:5, where it is said that the descendants of Shem, Ham, and
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Those who gave counsel to build the tower, for they whom thou seest drove forth multitudes of both men and women, to make bricks; among whom, a woman making bricks was not allowed to be released in the hour of child-birth, but brought forth while she was making bricks, and carried her child in her
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The building of the Tower was meant to bid defiance not only to God, but also to Abraham, who exhorted the builders to reverence. The passage mentions that the builders spoke sharp words against God, saying that once every 1,656 years, heaven tottered so that the water poured down upon the earth,
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And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented them together was asphalt which comes out of the sea, and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar. And they built it: forty and three
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also makes mention of this tower, and of the confusion of the language, when she says thus:—"When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven; but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave everyone a peculiar
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Some among that generation even wanted to war against God in heaven (Talmud Sanhedrin 109a). They were encouraged in this undertaking by the notion that arrows that they shot into the sky fell back dripping with blood, so that the people really believed that they could wage war against the
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and mentioned the Tower of Babel. He wrote that it was Nimrod who had the tower built and that Nimrod was a tyrant who tried to turn the people away from God. In this account, God confused the people rather than destroying them because annihilation with a Flood had not taught them to be
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Rendering the heights of heaven no safer than the earth, they say the giants attempted to take the Celestial kingdom, piling mountains up to the distant stars. Then the all-powerful father of the gods hurled his bolt of lightning, fractured Olympus and threw Mount Pelion down from Ossa
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wrote a satirical tract in 1688, where he made fun of the contest between the European nationalists to claim their native tongue as the Adamic language. Caricaturing the attempts by the Swede Olaus Rudbeck to pronounce Swedish the original language of mankind, Kempe wrote a scathing
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are situated on each side, which make in all one hundred. The doors of these gates, which are of wonderful size, are cast in bronze. The same historian tells many other tales of this city, and says: 'Although such was the glory of its building still it was conquered and destroyed.'"
2244:, the Tower of Babel is used by the Atlanteans as an interstellar communication device. Later in the series, the Neo Atlanteans rebuild the Tower of Babel and use its communication beam as a weapon of mass destruction. Both the original and the rebuilt tower resembles the painting 1807:(14th century). Villani adds that it "was begun 700 years after the Flood, and there were 2,354 years from the beginning of the world to the confusion of the Tower of Babel. And we find that they were 107 years working at it; and men lived long in those times". According to the 2151:. In his retelling, Oakeshott expresses disdain for human willingness to sacrifice individuality, culture, and quality of life for grand collective projects. He attributes this behavior to fascination with novelty, persistent dissatisfaction, greed, and lack of self-reflection. 1598:) mentions the number of 72; however, his list of names from the Bible drops the sons of Joktan and substitutes the sons of Abraham and Lot, resulting in only about 56 names total; he then appends a list of some of the nations known in his own day, such as the 604:
and not as an historical account of events. Genesis is described as beginning with historicized myth and ending with mythicized history. Nevertheless, the story of Babel can be interpreted in terms of its context: Elsewhere in Genesis, it is stated that Babel
969:, and sought to pierce the heavens, saying, "Let us see (whether) the heaven is made of clay, or of brass, or of iron." When God saw this He did not permit them, but smote them with blindness and confusion of speech, and rendered them as thou seest. 1007:, Chapter 9:12–36). According to Josephus and Midrash Pirke R. El. xxiv., it was mainly Nimrod who persuaded his contemporaries to build the Tower, while other rabbinical sources assert, on the contrary, that Nimrod separated from the builders. 1083:(xiii. 72), but without the tower: mankind were swept together by winds into the plain that was afterward called "Babil", where they were assigned their separate languages by God, and were then scattered again in the same way. In the 2317:
the campaign level "Nekravol" contains the Tower of Babel, but instead of its biblical purpose, it functions as a processing line for the suffering of human souls. In-game it is referred to as "The Citadel", but the concept art for
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Although variations similar to the biblical narrative of the Tower of Babel exist within Islamic tradition, the central theme of God separating humankind on the basis of language is alien to Islam according to the author
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According to another midrashic account, one third of the Tower builders were punished by being transformed into semi-demonic creatures and banished into three parallel dimensions, inhabited now by their descendants.
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suggests that the intentional word play regarding the city of Babel, and the noise of the people's "babbling" is found in the Hebrew words as easily as in English, is considered typical of the Yahwist source.
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they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth." The L
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There have also been a number of traditions around the world that describe a divine confusion of the one original language into several, albeit without any tower. Aside from the Ancient Greek myth that
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apron, and continued to make bricks. And the Lord appeared to them and confused their speech, when they had built the tower to the height of four hundred and sixty-three cubits. And they took a
2373:, the final monument the island inhabitants can create is called the Tower of Babel, which begins to sink the island. The titular Doshin the Giant then sacrifices himself to save the island. 330:, which is intended explain the origin of a custom, ritual, geographical feature, name, or other phenomenon —namely the origins of the multiplicity of languages. The confusion of tongues ( 4622: 4615: 4608: 4601: 1066:
taught magic to some people in Babylon and warned them that magic is a sin and that their teaching them magic is a test of faith. A tale about Babil appears more fully in the writings of
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in Rome, while later conical depictions of the tower (as depicted in Doré's illustration) resemble much later Muslim towers observed by 19th-century explorers in the area, notably the
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the Great's conquests. He managed to move the tiles of the tower to another location, but his death stopped the reconstruction, and it was demolished during the reign of his successor
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Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known historical structures and accounts, particularly from ancient Mesopotamia. The most widely attributed inspiration is
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speculated that the authors of Genesis 11:1–9 were inspired by the existence of an apparently incomplete ziggurat at Babylon, and by the phonological similarity between Babylonian
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and his family ask God that their language not be confounded at the time of the "great tower". Because of their prayers, God preserves their language and leads them to the
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documented similarities between Old Testament stories, such as the Flood, and indigenous legends around the world. He identified Livingston's account with a tale found in
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The Book of Genesis does not specify the tower's height; the phrase, "its top in the sky" (v.4) was an idiom for impressive height, rather than implying arrogance. The
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There are several mediaeval historiographic accounts that attempt to make an enumeration of the languages scattered at the Tower of Babel. Because a count of all the
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leave the lower world to us; therefore we will build us a tower, with an idol on the top holding a sword, so that it may appear as if it intended to war with God" (
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was an ancient Greek unit of length, based on the circumference of a typical sports stadium of the time which was about 176 metres (577 ft). Twenty-five
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or tower, to preserve themselves in the event of a second deluge. However, their languages were confounded and they went to separate parts of the Earth.
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scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore it was called Babel, because there the L
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series refers to the Tower of Babel in a context of intercultural conflict and cooperation (Jews and Muslims during the French colonization in Algeria).
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The primacy of Hebrew was still defended by some authors until the emergence of modern linguistics in the second half of the 18th century, e.g. by
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therefore they would support it by columns that there might not be another deluge (Gen. R. l.c.; Tan. l.c.; similarly Josephus, "Ant." i. 4, § 2).
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escaped a great flood, then became wicked and attempted to build a house reaching to heaven, but the Great Spirit destroyed it with thunderbolts.
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30 generations from Adam, when the languages were confused and the Karen separated from the Karenni. He notes yet another version current in the
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Prior to this event, humanity was stated to speak a single language, although the preceding Genesis 10:5 states that the descendants of
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surveyed historic variations of the Tower of Babel in different cultures and produced a modern retelling of his own in his 1983 book,
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in Hebrew. The first century Roman-Jewish author Flavius Josephus similarly explained that the name was derived from the Hebrew word
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mentions that the "tower of strife" reached a height of 463 cubits, or 211.8 m (695 ft), taller than any structure built
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XXVI) that Hebrew is a derivative of the language of Adam. In particular, the chief Hebrew name for God in scholastic tradition,
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contained lodgings for workers and animals, and other authors who claim that the path was wide enough to have fields for growing
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mentions the tower's height as being 5,433 cubits and 2 palms, or 2,484 m (8,150 ft), about three times the height of
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years were they building it; its breadth was 203 bricks, and the height was the third of one; its height amounted to 5433
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high, or 5.92 km (3.68 mi) and 1,000 paces thick, and each pace is three of our feet." The 14th-century traveler
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Dorschel, Andreas (25 November 2004). "Ach, Sie waren nicht in Oxford? Antonia S. Byatts Roman "Der Turm zu Babel"".
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Various traditions similar to that of the tower of Babel are found in Latin America. Some writers connected the
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Levenson, Jon D. (2004). "Genesis: Introduction and Annotations". In Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi (eds.).
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has a story with similarities to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, although set in the Egypt of Moses:
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land, "the whole universe, the well-guarded people—may they all address Enlil together in a single language."
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that substitute a pile of porridge pestles for the masts. Frazer moreover cites such legends found among the
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in 1849 had such a tradition, but with the builders' heads getting "cracked by the fall of the scaffolding".
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According to modern scholars, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel was likely influenced by Etemenanki.
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to restore (or in Kramer's translation, to disrupt) the linguistic unity of the inhabited regions—named as
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A philosophicall essay for the reunion of the languages, or, the art of knowing all by the mastery of one
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The story's theme of competition between God and humans appears elsewhere in Genesis, in the story of
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Despite no mention of the Tower of Babel in the original text of the Book of Mormon, some leaders in
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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE), James Orr, M.A., D.D., General Editor – 1915 (
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considers the height of the Tower of Babel. He wrote, "brick and stone weigh about 120 lb per
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Kyojin no Doshin 1: Koushiki Gaidobukku (Doshin the Giant 1: Official Guide book) for 64DD version
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The Tower of Babel appears as an important location in the Babylonian story arc of the Japanese
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The literal belief that the world's linguistic variety originated with the tower of Babel is
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to build him a stone (or clay) tower so that he can mount up to heaven and confront the
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Hiebert, Theodore (2007). "The Tower of Babel and the Origin of the World's Cultures".
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Easton's Bible Dictionary, M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. (
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Pickthal, M. "Quran" (in English), Suras 28:36 and 40:36–37. Amana Publishers, UK 1996
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Moye, Richard H. (1990). "In the Beginning: Myth and History in Genesis and Exodus".
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due to the Hebrew terms for Babylon and "to confuse" having similar pronunciation.
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The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century
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Per the story in Genesis, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew verb
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German Late Medieval depiction of the tower's construction from a manuscript of
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Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law
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also included an account of the tower and reported that its height had been 64
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Other sources that mention 72 (or 70) languages scattered from Babel are the
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which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into
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came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. And the L
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Kramer, Samuel Noah (1968). "The 'Babel of Tongues': A Sumerian Version".
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A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: the Hebrew Bible in its Context
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Kramer, Samuel Noah (1968). "The 'Babel of Tongues': A Sumerian Version".
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the last stages of the game and the final boss fight occur in the tower.
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artbook, and the Steam Trading Card) refers to it as the "Tower Babel".
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language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon."
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Jewish and Christian tradition attributes the composition of the whole
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Geschichte Mesopotamiens. Von den Sumerern bis zu Alexander dem Großen
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Japheth gave rise to different nations, each with their own language.
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Traces of a somewhat similar story have also been reported among the
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This biblical episode is dramatized in the Indian television series
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Schwartz, Howard; Loebel-Fried, Caren; Ginsburg, Elliot K. (2007).
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The Tower of Babel appears in the 47th episode of the anime series
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The tradition of 72 languages persisted into later times. Both
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which describes events and locations in southern Mesopotamia.
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in this case, because he would not partake in the building.
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myth of "the Cooking of Languages" has also been compared.
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act of defiance against God ordered by the arrogant tyrant
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HERBARIUM Art Project. Anatomy of the Tower of Babel. 2010
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was widely considered the language used by God to address
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and is contrary to the known facts about the origin and
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in 1889, which is 324 m (1,063 ft) in height.
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scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
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The Jewish-Roman historian Flavius Josephus, in his
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New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 395–398. 2753: 2718:The Oxford Guide To People And Places of the Bible 1919:Another story, attributed by the native historian 1477:(1675) and by Gottfried Hensel (1687–1767) in his 1101:relates the same story, adding that the patriarch 4086:Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 3681:The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Islam 2092:depicts a more stylized geometrical structure in 2029:as having a similar story. The traditions of the 763:and demands a tribute of precious materials from 326:The Tower of Babel is a type of myth known as an 4574:"The Tower of Babel and the Birth of Nationhood" 4302:Tamaro Forever presents The Secret of Blue Water 3142:Understanding the Bible: A Reader's Introduction 794:myth, dating from the 8th century BC during the 735:There are similar stories to the Tower of Babel 727:, meaning "mixed", "confused", or "confounded". 3723:A Companion to Your Study of the Book of Mormon 3441:"Herodotus, the Histories, Book 1, chapter 179" 2910:From Creation to Babel: Studies in Genesis 1-11 1889: 1178: 1142:the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 962: 817: 675:, but had fallen into disrepair by the time of 252: 193:The phrase "Tower of Babel" does not appear in 174:. A similar story is also found in the ancient 3902:Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists 3545:Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. 2364:, has been likened to a modern Tower of Babel. 1881:'s thunderbolts. A.S. Kline translates Ovid's 741:similar to that of the Tower of Babel, called 4948: 4644: 3533:. Vol. 88, no. 1. pp. 108–111. 3296:. Echo Point Books & Media. p. 313. 2896:. Vol. 88, no. 1. pp. 108–111. 723:, meaning "gate of God", and the Hebrew word 600:Biblical scholars see the Book of Genesis as 8: 4173:Anti-Theory in Ethics and Moral Conservatism 3895: 3893: 3891: 2657: 2638: 2619: 2172:, based on a modernized version of the myth. 1572:). The chronicles attributed to Hippolytus ( 833:Jubilees 10:20–21, Charles' 1913 translation 382:explains the construction of the tower as a 4112:. London: British Film Institute. pp.  2913:. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 179–180. 4955: 4941: 4933: 4839:Creation and evolution in public education 4651: 4637: 4629: 4531:The "Babel of Tongues": A Sumerian Version 4051:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 3775:(30 June 2009). "The Paraphrase of Shem". 3632:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 3163: 3161: 2747: 2745: 2380:is largely inspired by the Tower of Babel. 995:; Tan., ed. Buber, Noah, xxvii. et seq.). 956:(or 3 Baruch, c. 2nd century), one of the 694:) wrote an account of the ziggurat in his 512:for the animals used in the construction. 27: 4385:Donlan, Christopher (12 September 2023). 3132: 3130: 3024: 3022: 3020: 2080:'s influential portrayal is based on the 1495:listed by name in chapter 10 of Genesis ( 1376:, these languages were considered to be " 517:Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down 4857:Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District 4485:A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture 3531:Journal of the American Oriental Society 3316: 2894:Journal of the American Oriental Society 2818:. Oxford University Press. p. 704. 2058:The "Babel fish" is a fictional fish in 217:applied to an earlier form of the name, 4364:. Nintendo Co., Ltd. 20 February 2000. 4169:. In Clarke, S.G.; Simpson, E. (eds.). 2815:Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism 2785:Graves, Robert; Patai, Raphael (1986). 2721:. Oxford University Press. p. 28. 2698: 2488: 2194:, which concluded with book IV in 2021. 1939:Still another story, attributed to the 484:A typical medieval account is given by 132:speaking a single language migrates to 4722:Allegorical interpretations of Genesis 4391:review - a puzzling linguistic marvel" 4257:"Ted Chiang's Soulful Science Fiction" 4044: 3979:. London: Macmillan. pp. 362–387. 3625: 2238:In the 1990 Japanese television anime 882: 221:, of unknown meaning and probably non- 16:Mythical structure in the Hebrew Bible 5053:and the origin of nations (10:1–11:9) 3375: 3373: 3371: 3271:. Simon & Schuster. p. 247. 3069:. Taylor & Francis. p. 164. 1997:, Scottish social anthropologist Sir 1921:Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl 1869:, there is a myth referred to as the 1455:, God spoke Swedish, and the serpent 1089:by the 9th-century Muslim theologian 921:), recounted history as found in the 418:, or roughly 1.6 miles high (10:21). 7: 4500:Ixtilxochitl, Don Ferdinand d'Alva, 3684:. Indianapolis: Alpha. p. 108. 2862: 2860: 2064:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1035:Although not mentioned by name, the 349:dispersed "with their own tongues." 4323:Debarnot, Eric (15 December 2017). 3598:London: SPCK. 1917. pp. 90–94. 2760:. Oxford University Press. p.  2658: 2639: 2620: 2586: 2533: 2200:Arabian Nights: Sinbad's Adventures 1865:, much of which was adopted by the 1062:, but tells of when the two angels 4578:Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation 4515:Native Races of the Pacific States 3750:"The Flood and the Tower of Babel" 2953:. Simon and Schuster. p. 73. 2103:wrote an opera based on the story 1801:'s 1300 account; and the rabbinic 1487:Enumeration of scattered languages 711:proposed this occurred during the 121:meant to explain the existence of 14: 4621:Smith's Bible Dictionary (1896) ( 4477:Knecht, Friedrich Justus (1910). 4342:Haidt, Jonathan (11 April 2022). 4089:. Harper & Brothers. p.  3871:. London: Macmillan. p. 384. 3591:The Biblical Antiquities of Philo 3267:Friedman, Richard Elliot (1997). 3204:The Length of Eratosthenes' Stade 3090:Hiebert, Theodore (Spring 2007). 2788:Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis 2258:Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones 1708:History of the Prophets and Kings 1652:, and the midrashic compilations 1086:History of the Prophets and Kings 974:Greek Apocalypse of Baruch, 3:5–8 700:, which he called the "Temple of 128:According to the story, a united 4917: 4916: 4466:. In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). 3995:letras-uruguay.espaciolatino.com 3991:"Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl" 3294:Abraham in History and Tradition 2496: 2419: 2405: 2391: 1979:, the people he met living near 1271:confused the languages, causing 43: 4565:Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2241:Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water 2070:used this as a base for their " 1442:, 1641). The Swedish physician 1325:, and by Adam as lawgiver (the 1150:Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta 744:Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta 519:(Pelican 1978–1984), Professor 449:, quotes the earlier historian 181:Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta 21:Tower of Babel (disambiguation) 5134:Jacob wrestling with the angel 4834:Creation–evolution controversy 4069:Report on the Census of Bengal 4030:History of Arizona, Volume VII 3883:Reisen in die 'Ostseeprovinzen 3331:Journal of Biblical Literature 3170:Journal of Biblical Literature 3100:Journal of Biblical Literature 1923:(c. 1565–1648) to the ancient 1480:Synopsis Universae Philologiae 432:until the construction of the 1: 4509:Antiquities of Mexico, vol. 9 4027:Farish, Thomas Edwin (1918). 3732:Book of Mormon Student Manual 3615:Legends of the Jews, Volume 1 3208:American Journal of Philology 2937:, Beck, München 2004, p. 121. 2791:. Random House. p. 315. 2168:wrote a concept album called 2074:" online translation service. 1994:Folklore in the Old Testament 1791: 1778: 1762: 1735: 1716: 1693: 1659: 1630: 1613: 1592: 1573: 1566: 1549: 1532: 1369:Before the acceptance of the 1287:of Assam, the inhabitants of 915: 688: 454: 443: 311: 2621:אֶת הָעִיר וְאֶת הַמִּגְדָּל 2607: 2564: 2232:Turrican II: The Final Fight 1914:conquest of the Aztec Empire 1844:Mythical origins of language 1820:De procuranda indorum salute 1809:Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum 1787:Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum 1722:); the Anglo-Saxon dialogue 1713:Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari 1313:During the Middle Ages, the 1223:wrestled with the idea of a 1215:Mythical origins of language 1200:depicting the Tower of Babel 1003:inhabitants of the heavens ( 468:(82.72 km or 51.4 miles) in 5326:Allegorical interpretations 4989:Genesis creation narratives 4460:Maas, Anthony John (1912). 4165:Oakeshott, Michael (1989). 4033:. Phoenix. pp. 309–310 3904:. BRILL. pp. 159–181. 3813:Pennock, Robert T. (2000). 3251:Selections from Giovanni's 3033:. Oxford University Press. 3029:Coogan, Michael D. (2009). 2950:The Dictionary of the Bible 2645: 2627:ʾeṯ hā-ʿîr wəʾeṯ ha-mmiḡdāl 2626: 2594: 2544: 1905:to the Tower of Babel. The 1699:); the Irish monastic work 1408:Piero Francesco Giambullari 1335:addresses the topic in his 1231:Multiplication of languages 824:and 2 palms, and thirteen 571:J or Jahwist/Yahwist source 503:The 17th-century historian 230: 205:, is uncertain. The native 97: 5487: 5083:Abraham and Lot's conflict 4694:Genesis creation narrative 4480:"The Tower of Babel"  4429:, in Baynes, T. S. (ed.), 4083:David Livingstone (1858). 3618:. New York. Archived from 2599: 2553: 2461:List of tallest structures 2143:The political philosopher 1837: 1639:Book of Roads and Kingdoms 1521:9); it is repeated in the 1208: 1168:tradition recorded in the 1058::102 mentions the name of 954:Third Apocalypse of Baruch 949:Greek Apocalypse of Baruch 640: 609:: Βαβυλών) formed part of 541:Hanging Gardens of Babylon 426:Third Apocalypse of Baruch 398:, presenting Babel as the 18: 4912: 4851:Kansas evolution hearings 3900:Mazzocco, Angelo (1993). 3727:Church Educational System 3292:Van Seters, John (1975). 2947:John L. Mckenzie (1995). 2299:In the video game series 2293:Crest of the Royal Family 1711:by the Persian historian 1646:(1068), the 11th-century 1436:Georg Philipp Harsdörffer 1380:" by some authors (e.g., 42: 36: 35: 5369:Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1007 5321:Framework interpretation 4245:(in German). p. 16. 4137:Worthington, G. (2016). 4104:Bukatman, Scott (1997). 3678:Emerick, Yahiya (2002). 2456:Evolutionary linguistics 2345:The tower of Bab-El-Oued 2250:Pieter Bruegel the Elder 2138:Brueghel's 1563 painting 1903:Great Pyramid of Cholula 1225:single original language 1190:The Confusion of Tongues 859:, and to Phenech son of 56:Pieter Bruegel the Elder 5364:Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 656 5027:Genesis flood narrative 4813:Young Earth creationism 4803:Progressive creationism 4732:Genesis flood narrative 4591:Tower of Babel – Baruch 4452:Encyclopædia Britannica 4432:Encyclopædia Britannica 3459:Understanding the Bible 3222:(subscription required) 3144:. Palo Alto: Mayfield. 2326:The Art of Doom Eternal 2175:Science fiction writer 2112:American choreographer 2096:representing the story. 1826:a century later in his 1668:Chronicles of Jerahmeel 1404:Giovanni Battista Gelli 911:Antiquities of the Jews 885:Antiquities of the Jews 790:In addition, a further 633:, meaning "confusion". 567:Richard Elliot Friedman 237:Encyclopædia Britannica 5331:Wife–sister narratives 5094:Covenant of the pieces 5021:Genealogies of Genesis 4699:History of creationism 4463:"Tower of Babel"  4421:Sayce, Archibald Henry 3383:; Price, Ira Maurice; 3202:Donald Engels (1985). 3067:Genesis 1-11; Volume 1 2756:The Jewish Study Bible 2573: 2341:La tour de Bab-El-Oued 2277:wrote a story called " 2264:In the web-based game 2179:wrote a story called " 1894: 1858: 1275:to give his throne to 1244: 1221:historical linguistics 1201: 1183: 1032: 977: 946: 905: 899:Lucas van Valckenborch 836: 755:is building a massive 731:Mesopotamian analogues 660: 656:Reconstruction of the 627:to confuse or confound 563:documentary hypothesis 545: 400:cradle of civilization 358:and the latter by the 318: 291: 5008:Serpents in the Bible 4863:Teach the Controversy 4798:Old Earth creationism 4550:Standpunkte Dokumente 4469:Catholic Encyclopedia 4298:"NADIA & REALITY" 4205:Corey, E. C. (2006). 4066:Beverley, H. (1872). 4017:, vol. 3, p. 76. 3235:History of the Franks 2273:Argentinian novelist 2164:The progressive band 1941:Tohono O'odham people 1856: 1840:Comparative mythology 1818:in his 1576 treatise 1690:Luccreth moccu Chiara 1540:Epiphanius of Salamis 1505:Clement of Alexandria 1386:Indo-European studies 1338:De vulgari eloquentia 1238: 1209:Further information: 1188: 1022: 928: 893: 655: 617:version of the name, 538: 301: 209:name of the city was 197:nor elsewhere in the 158:dedicated to the god 5359:Papyrus Berlin 17213 4922:Category:Creationism 4845:Edwards v. 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Bancroft, 4491: 4476: 4459: 4439: 4419: 4416: 4414:Further reading 4411: 4401: 4399: 4384: 4383: 4379: 4372: 4360: 4359: 4355: 4341: 4340: 4336: 4322: 4321: 4317: 4307: 4305: 4296: 4295: 4291: 4272: 4271: 4267: 4254: 4250: 4237: 4236: 4232: 4225: 4204: 4203: 4199: 4189: 4187: 4185: 4164: 4162: 4158: 4151: 4136: 4135: 4131: 4124: 4103: 4102: 4098: 4082: 4081: 4077: 4065: 4064: 4060: 4043: 4036: 4034: 4026: 4025: 4021: 4013: 4009: 3999: 3997: 3989: 3988: 3984: 3969: 3968: 3961: 3952: 3951: 3947: 3923: 3919: 3912: 3899: 3898: 3889: 3880: 3876: 3861: 3860: 3856: 3849: 3845: 3838: 3834: 3827: 3812: 3811: 3807: 3797: 3795: 3793: 3767: 3766: 3762: 3744: 3743: 3739: 3717: 3713: 3703: 3699: 3692: 3677: 3676: 3672: 3662: 3660: 3655: 3654: 3650: 3645: 3641: 3624: 3610:Ginzberg, Louis 3608: 3607: 3603: 3588: 3587: 3583: 3578: 3574: 3570: 3566: 3562: 3558: 3554: 3542: 3538: 3528: 3527: 3523: 3516: 3496: 3495: 3491: 3484: 3480: 3473: 3453: 3452: 3448: 3439: 3438: 3434: 3425: 3421: 3414: 3410: 3389:Ginzberg, Louis 3385:Jastrow, Marcus 3381:Jastrow, Morris 3379: 3378: 3369: 3362: 3358: 3343:10.2307/3267364 3328: 3327: 3323: 3315: 3311: 3304: 3291: 3290: 3286: 3279: 3266: 3265: 3261: 3249: 3245: 3232: 3228: 3221: 3201: 3197: 3167: 3166: 3159: 3152: 3136: 3135: 3128: 3094: 3089: 3088: 3084: 3077: 3064: 3063: 3059: 3052: 3048: 3041: 3028: 3027: 3018: 3008: 3006: 2998: 2997: 2993: 2983: 2981: 2973: 2972: 2968: 2961: 2946: 2945: 2941: 2932: 2928: 2921: 2906: 2905: 2901: 2891: 2890: 2886: 2876: 2874: 2866: 2865: 2858: 2848: 2846: 2838: 2837: 2833: 2826: 2811: 2810: 2806: 2799: 2784: 2783: 2779: 2772: 2751: 2750: 2743: 2733: 2731: 2729: 2714: 2713: 2709: 2704: 2700: 2696: 2691: 2690: 2681: 2677: 2669: 2665: 2656: 2652: 2637: 2633: 2618: 2614: 2584: 2580: 2534:מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל 2522: 2499: 2495: 2494: 2490: 2485: 2480: 2446:Enuma Anu Enlil 2425: 2420: 2418: 2411: 2406: 2404: 2397: 2392: 2390: 2387: 2354:The Rabbi's Cat 2220:Chris Huelsbeck 2188:Josiah Bancroft 2120:in 1993 at the 2078:Pieter Brueghel 2055: 1989: 1973: 1953: 1937: 1907:Dominican friar 1899: 1863:Greek mythology 1851: 1846: 1836: 1794: 1781: 1774:Book of the Bee 1765: 1738: 1719: 1696: 1662: 1633: 1616: 1595: 1576: 1569: 1562:The City of God 1552: 1535: 1489: 1473:(1648–1705) in 1466: 1374:language family 1333:Dante Alighieri 1327:Adamic language 1315:Hebrew language 1233: 1217: 1207: 1162: 1152:to the goddess 1123: 1075: 1064:Harut and Marut 1017: 1005:Sefer ha-Yashar 982: 976: 973: 951: 918: 888: 841: 835: 832: 809: 804: 733: 691: 681:Antiochus Soter 650: 645: 639: 598: 582:John Van Seters 551: 533: 494:John Mandeville 457: 446: 408: 368: 356:Priestly source 324: 314: 296: 290: 285:Genesis 11:1–9 284: 277: 269: 265: 260: 256: 251: 191: 119:Book of Genesis 59: 38: 37:מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל 24: 17: 12: 11: 5: 5484: 5482: 5474: 5473: 5468: 5463: 5458: 5453: 5448: 5443: 5438: 5433: 5428: 5423: 5418: 5413: 5408: 5406:Tower of Babel 5398: 5397: 5391: 5390: 5388: 5387: 5381: 5379: 5375: 5374: 5372: 5371: 5366: 5361: 5355: 5353: 5349: 5348: 5346: 5345: 5340: 5333: 5328: 5323: 5317: 5315: 5311: 5310: 5308: 5307: 5302: 5297: 5291: 5289: 5285: 5284: 5282: 5281: 5275: 5269: 5263: 5257: 5251: 5245: 5239: 5233: 5227: 5221: 5215: 5208: 5206: 5204:Torah readings 5200: 5199: 5197: 5196: 5191: 5186: 5181: 5176: 5175: 5174: 5163: 5161: 5160:Notable verses 5157: 5156: 5154: 5153: 5147: 5137: 5131: 5128:Jacob's Ladder 5125: 5115: 5109: 5103: 5097: 5091: 5085: 5080: 5073: 5071: 5064: 5063: 5061: 5060: 5057:Tower of Babel 5054: 5048: 5042: 5041: 5040: 5035: 5024: 5018: 5012: 5011: 5010: 4999: 4998: 4997: 4985: 4983: 4976: 4975: 4972: 4971: 4963: 4962: 4960: 4959: 4952: 4945: 4937: 4928: 4927: 4925: 4924: 4913: 4910: 4909: 4907: 4906: 4901: 4896: 4891: 4886: 4881: 4875: 4873: 4869: 4868: 4866: 4865: 4860: 4853: 4848: 4841: 4836: 4831: 4825: 4823: 4819: 4818: 4816: 4815: 4810: 4805: 4800: 4795: 4790: 4785: 4780: 4775: 4770: 4764: 4762: 4758: 4757: 4755: 4754: 4749: 4747:Tower of Babel 4744: 4739: 4734: 4729: 4724: 4719: 4713: 4711: 4705: 4704: 4702: 4701: 4696: 4691: 4686: 4681: 4676: 4670: 4668: 4664: 4663: 4658: 4656: 4655: 4648: 4641: 4633: 4627: 4626: 4619: 4612: 4605: 4598: 4593: 4587:Tower of Babel 4583:SkyscraperPage 4580: 4571: 4566: 4558: 4557:External links 4555: 4554: 4553: 4536:Kyle Dugdale: 4534: 4527: 4518: 4511: 4505: 4498: 4489: 4474: 4457: 4443:, ed. 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