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The Tower of Babel is perhaps the most potent and enduring symbol of humankind’s refusal to accept limitations. In the days when the people of the world all spoke the same language, they set about building a great wonder: “Let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and make a name for ourselves…” Beholding the tower, the Lord says, “From now on nothing they have a mind to do will be beyond their reach” (Genesis 11:4–6). In this painting by Israeli artist and noted Near Eastern archaeologist Zeev Yeivin, the Tower of […]