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Babel
Babel [Heb.,=confused], in the Bible, place where Noah's descendants (who spoke one language) tried to build a tower reaching up to heaven to make a name for themselves. For this presumption the speech of the builders was confused, thus ending the project. The story was perhaps originally an etiolo...
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Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel
Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel , 1894-1940, Russian writer, b. Odessa. Babel was quick to embrace the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, but in the end it was the regime born of that revolution that destroyed him. He won fame with Odessa Tales (1921-23), written in Russian-Jewish dialect, and Red Cavalry ...
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glossolalia
glossolalia [Gr.,=speaking in tongues], ecstatic utterances usually of unintelligible sounds made by individuals in a state of religious excitement. Religious revivals are often accompanied by manifestations of glossolalia, and various Pentecostal (see Pentecostalism ) movements cite for authority...
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Hammurabi
Hammurabi , fl. 1792-1750 BC, king of Babylonia . He founded an empire that was eventually destroyed by raids from Asia Minor. Hammurabi may have begun building the tower of Babel (Gen. 11.4), which can now be identified with the temple-tower in Babylon called Etemenanki. His code of laws is one of...
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A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Byatt) , 1936-, British novelist; sister of Margaret Drabble . Educated at Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College, Pa., and Oxford, she is a noted critic and novelist whose work is erudite, subtle, and passionate. Her best-known novel, Possession (1989)—at once a mystery,...
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Russian literature
Russian literature literary works mainly produced in the historic area of Russia, written in its earliest days in Church Slavonic and after the 17th cent. in the Russian language.
Early Literature
Russian literature was first produced after the introduction of Christianity from Byzantium ...
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Adriaen van Ostade
Adriaen van Ostade , 1610-85, Dutch genre painter, b. Haarlem. Trained in the studio of Frans Hals , he was strongly influenced by his fellow student Adriaen Brouwer . Van Ostade created good-humored depictions of village and peasant life, in which the figures are lively in expression and action. ...
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