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Tower of Babel

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According to a story in Genesis Chapter 11, the Tower of Babel was a tower built by a united humanity in order to reach the heavens. To prevent the project from succeeding, God confused their languages so that each spoke a different language and the work could not proceed. After that time, people moved away to different parts of the earth. The story is used to explain the existence of many different languages and races.

It has become a potent symbol of overambitious projects destined to end in confusion. Images of unfinished buildings reaching towards the sky can be found in religious art (see example to right).

See also

Babel, Babel fish

Tower of Babel is also the name of a multilingual, multicultural online journal and community of arts and ideas created by Malcolm Lawrence.

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