Another Example of Fake News

IS IT MIGDAL BAVEL, OR IS IT JUST ANOTHER ZIGGURAT?

Another Example of Fake NewsThere is fake news, old news, and exaggerated news. Put all three together and you have the report entitled “Tower of Babel Discovered? Ancient Tablet Describes Mesopotamian Structure Built by ‘Multitudes.’”

Why is it fake news? Because the report wants you to believe that what has been discovered is the biblical Migdal Bavel, the Tower of Babel described in Bereishis (11:1-9). Why is it old news? Because the Ziggurat (Mesopotamian temple tower) of Babylon has been known for over a century, and an ancient image of that tower was published in 2011. Why is it exaggerated news? Because it describes a tower built by King Nevuchadnetzar II, the Babylonian king who destroyed the Beis Hamikdash, and therefore cannot possibly refer to the Torah’s Migdal Bavel, which dates back to the time after the mabul.

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