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Babel

Index: Abenjacán El Bojarí, muerto en su laberinto, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 601. Una brújula, El otro, el mismo, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 875. Queja de todo criollo, I,Inquisiciones. Buenos Aires: Editorial Proa, 1925. 137. Las causas, OP,Obra poética, 1923-1977. Madrid: Alianza, 1981. 552. Lo cacharon en Cacheuta, TR1,Textos recobrados 1919-1929. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1997. 26.

Tower of Babel in the Bible

Fishburn and Hughes: "Assyrian word, Bab-ili, meaning 'the gate of the God', the original name of Babylon; cf. Hebrew balal, to 'confuse'. The story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) seeks to explain the diversity of mankind. Man's presumption in building a tower to reach heaven is frustrated by God, who confounds the language of those who built it, dividing their speech. The story was probably inspired by the pyramidal temple-tower in Babylon." (21)