Act 1
Act 2
Context: This is a 2018 video from G-dcast / BimBam.
Context: This is a Bible Raps 2014 video by Matt Barr.
Historical Origins of The Story
From: The Historical Atlas of The Bible, by Dr. Ian Barnes, p. 208
The name Babylon is a Greek form of the Hebrew name Babel, itself derived from a Sumerian name meaning “Gate of God”. Genesis 10:10 describes the founding of the city of Babel by Nimrod, a descendent of Ham, son of Noah. Genesis 11:1-9 describes the building of the city and its famous tower “whose top may reach unto heaven”, and how God punished the people’s arrogance by creating a confusion of different languages.
Although Babel and Babylon are probably one and the same, there is not sufficient written or archeological evidence to establish that Babel was on the same site as Babylon and, though many have attempted to locate the ruins of the original Tower of Babel, no-one has succeeded. It is now thought that the legend of the tower refers to a ziggurat built in the 18th Century BCE.