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Millard, A. Fekheriyeh, Tell. In Dictionary of the ancient Near East , eds. You might have been surprised to find the word asphalt in the Bible. This word is transliterated as chemar, and means bitumen or asphalt. According to the Merriam-webster dictionary, bitumen is: an asphalt of Asia Minor used in ancient times as a cement and mortar.
In ancient times bitumen was collected from seepages in the ground and then mixed with other materials to create the desired strength and consistency. Also, the word bricks referred to in Genesis comes from the word lebenah which means bricks or burnt tile and is the same word used in Exodus to describe what the Hebrew slaves made for the Egyptians.
The word lebenah could also have a reference to a white or chalky clay of which bricks were made. There is no complete description of the Tower of Babel available today, such as what it looked like, or its height, length and width. However, we can gather some clues about what it might have looked like from the information the Bible provides. The brick used to build the tower may have been white or a chalky clay color, based on the word lebenah which translates as brick.
The material used to cement or bind the bricks together probably was a dark color because it was derived from bitumen which is loosely related to our modern-day asphalt.
View full-size image. The Biblical narrative of Babel in Genesis 11 follows after the genealogies of Noah and comes before the story of Abraham in Genesis chapter According to Genesis , 8, God caused the people to stop building the Tower of Babel because He confused their language causing the people to scatter over the face of the earth.
Nothing more is said about the Tower of Babel and its destruction in the Bible, however, several early historians record the tradition that God destroyed the tower with a great wind. The Tower of Babel represents several things, one of which is the lack of trust humans often have toward God and what He says. Even in Genesis 14, the maps I am looking at in my Bible software show an area of Shinar in the same general location.
Roger, I appreciate your response, but I am still a bit puzzled. Looking at a map, if the descendants of Noah traveled from the east to the plain of Shinar, as Scripture says, I'm not sure how modern day Iraq works.
If that were the case, it appears they'd have to travel south, so that would mean they're traveling from the north, rather than from the east. Esp if the plain of Shinar Babel is modern day Baghdad, that would mean they traveled east. Unless the Ark landed a lot farther east in the Ararat mountains. Sorry to make such a big deal of this, but I'm just trying to be as accurate as possible.
What's I'm reading in the curriculum compared to maps, doesn't seem to jive. First, we have no clear location for where the ark landed.
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