Tower of Babel Re-examined || Genesis 11 ft. J. Richard Middleton

Many think the Tower of Babel describes the origin of all languages. Dr. J. Richard Middleton thinks that view is “dead wrong”.

J. Richard Middleton (PhD Free University of Amsterdam) is Professor of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary and adjunct professor of Old Testament at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology. Middleton is the author of Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God, A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology, and The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1.

▬ Contents of this Video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Intro
2:46 Popular views on the Tower of Babel
8:49 Wordplay in the Hebrew
10:24 Dating and authorship
12:18 Purpose of including the story in Gen. 11
14:24 More Hebrew wordplay
18:07 Genre of Genesis 11
22:43 Has archeology found a picture of the original Tower of Babel?
28:41 Did the Tower of Babel cause the dividing of nations found in Gen. 10?
31:22 Do we see the Trinity in Genesis?
47:36 Michael Heiser’s view of Deuteronomy 32 and it’s effect on the Tower of Babel
53:32 Is the Tower of Babel a ziggurat?
55:41 Were the ziggurats made to escape future floods?

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References:
[1] Richard Middleton J. Richard Middleton, The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) - Hebrew and English    • J. Richard Middleton, The Tower of Babel (...  
[2] Alexander Heidl, The Babylonian Genesis, pg. 69, 1963: https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchi...
[3] Richard Middleton, The Liberating Image: The Imago De In Genesis 1, pg.159, 2005, published by Brazos Press
[4] Richard Clifford, Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible, 1994, Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series 26: https://www.academia.edu/43570764/Cre...