How do you interpret the story/myth of the Tower of Babel?
The account in Genesis 11:1-9 is related as part and parcel of the genealogical lists of Noah’s descendants – the Table of Nations. If the people and places mentioned in chapter 10 are fiction, then so is the Tower of Babel. If they are fact, then so is the Tower of Babel. The builders’ desire for autonomy is so similar to the rebellion in Eden! The city-building showed defiance of God’s command to spread over the earth. It was a magnet for human pride and idolatry. The scattering of the people, after God stepped in to confuse them, accomplished what they sought to stop. As with the Eden account, the language is incredibly sparse and hints at so much more. It brings to mind how God gave his people the gift of tongues on the day of Pentecost (in the New Testament), in order to overcome the problems that myriad languages bring with regard to spreading the good news about Jesus. It contains principles we can find application for today where we see humanity apparently doing far more with r
