I don’t profess to understand the Babel story completely, but it’s clear to me that there is a dynamic here, a dialectic. And God scattered them all over the face of the earth, and they stopped building that city.”Īs anyone who’s taken high school French knows, differences in language are indeed a giant barrier to worldwide cooperation, even with Google Translate. Let’s go down and babble up their language, so they can’t understand one another’s language. But God came down to check out The Tower, and He took a different view: “Here, one people and one language for all of them, and this is what they start doing? Now nothing will stop them from all their scheming. You know, on the face of things, that doesn’t sound so bad to me. “ And they said, let’s build us a city and a skyscraper with its top all the way up in the sky, and we’ll make a name for ourselves, so that we won’t scatter all over the earth.” A whole bunch of Noah’s descendants started dwelling in close proximity (that gregarious, tribal tendency I suppose), real estate got scarce, and the engineers figured out how to make bricks. But He just turned around, and lookee wa’ happen: at the beginning of Genesis 11, ‘the entire earth was of one language, and one speaking’. Why the flood? “And God saw the earth, and behold it was corrupted, for all flesh had corrupted its ways on the earth.” Boom, reformat the global Hard Disk, let’s try again.Īfter the flood, Noah was pretty depressed (daunted I suppose by the major cleaning task facing him and Mrs Noah), so God saw fit to promise him that he would never again resort to such drastic measures, that the world would continue to revolve. Genesis begins with three stories – the Creation, the Deluge, and the Tower of Babel. How about, um, Yitzhak? Anyway, Ham’s most famous song was indeed ‘Pride of Man’: I guess you can’t argue against singing for love. “His soul had an argument with itself and the side that won decided to stop killing itself, to stop singing for release and to start singing for love.” Okay. He changed his name to Hamilton after joining the Subud spiritual movement, founded in the 1920s in Indonesia, now with 10,000 followers worldwide (including Jim>Roger McGuinn). He played in a trillion movies and TV shows, including a messenger boy in the 1953 version of “Titanic”, the uncredited second clerk in “The Graduate” (although I looked and could only find Buck Henry at the desk) and in two episodes of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” as Leck, a Ferengi) and sang folk music with Bob Gibson and by himself. It turns out Bob Camp (1934-2005) was evacuated from London during the Blitz and became a child actor in Hollywood. I admit I had only a foggy recollection of him from Back Then (but then most of my memories from BT are pretty foggy).
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