2007-08-08 16:05:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Abraham emigrated from Ur of the Chaldees about 2000 BC, and according to Biblical chronology the Tower pre-dates him. The Babylonian civilization arose shortly after 2000 BC, so despite the similarity in consonants, we cannot realistically put the Tower of Babel as late as that.
If any such incident occurred, I think for plausibility it has to be put really early in the Sumerian period of civilization, say 3100 BC give or take a couple of hundred years.
2007-08-09 07:57:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It didn't.
Though several towers in Ur and Uruk seem like likely candidates for where the setting of this rediculous story began.
2007-08-08 23:11:23 · answer #2 · answered by special-chemical-x 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a myth...but it is possible that some historical facts are hidden in there
2007-08-09 06:36:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
a bunch 6000 plus
2007-08-09 12:04:46 · answer #4 · answered by harlin42 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is not history, it is mythology,
2007-08-09 00:59:18 · answer #5 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋