The Tower of Babel in Nonlinear Dynamics: Toward the Clarification of Terms
Jeffrey A. Goldstein · Psychology Press eBooks · 2014
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech . And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there . And they said one to another, “Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly .” And they had brick for stone, and slime they had for mortar. And they said: “Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said: “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden to them, which they propose to do. Come let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city. Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from then did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth .— Genesis, verse 11