Description
In Babel’s Tower Translated, Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in a few 2nd Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis eleven:1-nine) is famously ambiguous. The that means of the narrative and the movements of each the human characters and the Israelite deity defy any simple rationalization. This work explores how converting historical and hermeneutical realities altered and shifted the that means of the text in Jewish antiquity.