Cities, Towers, and Lips: Scattered Ways of Reading the Babel Story
Location
Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
23-9-2024 11:00 AM
Description
The story in Genesis 11:1-9 has multiple facets, and it has passed through many layers of development. I will explore what the story may have been doing in its earliest written context, its reorientation in the book of Genesis, its revision in the book of Jubilees, and its earliest translation into Greek. In each of these stages of development various facets like language, city- building, imperial power, and cultural transformation expand or contract and move into the foreground or background depending on how tellers are using the tale.
Recommended Citation
McEntire, Mark, "Cities, Towers, and Lips: Scattered Ways of Reading the Babel Story" (2024). Humanities Symposium. 34.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2024/2024/34
Cities, Towers, and Lips: Scattered Ways of Reading the Babel Story
Janet Ayers Academic Center, Room 4094
The story in Genesis 11:1-9 has multiple facets, and it has passed through many layers of development. I will explore what the story may have been doing in its earliest written context, its reorientation in the book of Genesis, its revision in the book of Jubilees, and its earliest translation into Greek. In each of these stages of development various facets like language, city- building, imperial power, and cultural transformation expand or contract and move into the foreground or background depending on how tellers are using the tale.
Comments
Well-Core Category: Spiritual Wellness