Babel ka minar - Tower of Babel story - history of Babylon in Islam - Nimrod - Saremehfil - Urdu

Babel ka minar - Tower of Babel story - history of Babylon in Islam - Nimrod - Saremehfil - Urdu - Hindi

The famous Tower of Babel story and how it was built s about much more than an ill-fated construction project and language confusion. It’s at the heart of the Old Testament worldview. Babylon was where people sought to “make a name (shem) for themselves” by building a tower that reached to the heavens, the realm of the gods. The city is cast as the source of sinister activity and knowledge. It might seem that God’s response at the Tower of Babel incident was overly severe. But consider the context. The point is not that Yahweh was a glorified building inspector. Gods were perceived to live on mountains. The Tower of Babel story is regarded by all scholars as one of Mesopotamia’s famous man-made sacred mountains—a ziggurat. Ziggurats were divine abodes, places where Mesopotamians believed heaven and earth intersected. The nature of this structure makes evident the purpose in building it—to bring the divine down to earth.

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