It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Parthians. Its city walls were declared to be a Wonder of the World while its ziggurat won fame as the Tower of Babel. Visitors to B... (展开全部) 作者简介...
1.(Placename) the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia: first settled around 3000 bc. See alsoHanging Gardens of Babylon 2.(Protestantism)offensive(in Protestant polemic) the Roman Catholic Church, regarded as the seat of luxury and corruption ...
THE STORY OF THE TOWER OF BABEL 【译】巴别塔的故事 【专有名词】tower ['taʊə(r)] n. 塔；高楼 【专有名词】Babel['beɪbl] n. [圣经]巴别塔 All the people of the earth spoke one language; and as they travelled westward, they found a broad valley in the land of Babylonia,...
A Management Audit of the Babel Project巴比伦塔的管理教训 据《创世纪》记载,巴比伦塔是人类继诺亚方舟之后的第二大工程壮举,但巴比伦塔同时也是第一个彻底失败的工程。 这个故事在很多方面和不同层次都是非常深刻和富有教育意义的。让我们将它仅仅作为纯粹的工程项目,来看看有什么值得学习的教训。这个项目到底有多...
Thus the tower stayed forever unfinished, and the city which they had built was named Babel, which means confusion, because it was there that God changed the language of all the earth. The city was afterward known as Babylon, and the tower as the Tower of Babel. ...
Thus the tower stayed forever unfinished, and the city which they had built was named Babel, which means confusion, because it was there that God changed the language of all the earth. The city was afterward known as Babylon, and the tower as the Tower of Babel....
Perhaps all this industry hints at a basis for the Babel myth. In The City in History (1961), Lewis Mumford made the connection between the development of the ancient city and the development of specialised professions. This early division of labour pushed forward human prosperity, but also con...
Who built the Tower of Babel? Nimrod, as mentioned earlier, founded the city of Babel and other cities in Shinar. He and his officials were probably the driving force behind the tower. His government would have been responsible for planning, gathering the resources and eventually building the ...
The Tower of Babel stood at the very heart of the vibrant metropolis of Babylon in what is today Iraq. It was a city of open squares, broad boulevards and
The Tower of Babel is a biblical narrative found inGenesis 11:1-9. According to the story, after the Flood, humanity spoke a common language and settled in the land of Shinar. They decided to build a great city and a tower that reached the heavens to make a name for themselves. ...