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The Tower of Babel and the Origin of the World's Cultures
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The tower of Babel, standing unfinished, has become a cultural icon, symbolizing the preposterous pride of its builders and the divine punishment for all such acts of arrogance. It has cast its long shadow over the entire history of interpretation of the biblical narrative in Gen 11:1-9 in which it is found. In this interpretive history, the "tower with its top in the heavens" (11:4 NRSV) has been adopted as the key to the story...
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Mini Reviews Opening BABEL: ...
The Washington Post
; Mini Reviews BABEL: HOW IT WAS DONE IN ODESSA -- (At the Stanislavsky Theater Studio through Feb. 22) This one-man show is a family affair, with STS Artistic Director Andrei Malaev-Babel performing the work of his grandfather, Russian Jewish fiction writer Isaac Babel. With the help of Roland Reed,
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Reimagining Babel
Jerusalem Post
; AVIYA KUSHNER Jerusalem Post 12-26-2003 Headline: Reimagining Babel Byline: AVIYA KUSHNER Edition; Up Front Section: Books Page: 35 Friday, December 26, 2003 -- King of Odessa: A Novel of Isaac Babel By Robert A. Rosenstone. Northwestern University Press. 240 pp. $24.95 Isaac Babel is the kind of
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THE ARCHIVIST'S STORY
Michigan Quarterly Review
; It is a small matter that brings them together. A story, untitled, unsigned, and by all appearances incomplete, which the arresting officers in their haste have neglected to record in the evidence manifest. A year ago, when the Lubyanka thrummed with activity, when all of Moscow seemed to hold its
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FICTION; A NEW TRICK FOR FIDO; A grief-stricken widower tries to teach his dog to talk in Carolyn Parkhurst's deft debut, "The Dogs of Babel.".(ENTERTAINMENT)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Norah Labiner Special to the Star Tribune Paul Iverson is a linguistics professor who arrives home one afternoon to find that his wife, Lexy, has fallen to her death from the branches of the large apple tree in their back yard. The couple's dog, a Rhodesian Ridgeback named Lorelei, is the
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