Re: Question for Dick (or anyone else)

In a message dated 3/17/2006 2:54:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com writes:
I suspect a linguist would say
that there could be no language bottleneck as recently as Babel is
conventionally dated (i.e. by the genealogies) Is there a linguist on the list
to either confirm or shame my nonexpert babbling?
The Tower of Babel is a method of aggression. It was the method Cyrus used to
bring Babylon down. Cyrus championed the minorities against the interests of
the native Chaldeans. The country was in such an uproar as he approached that
Babylon gave in without a fight.

Today, we don't recognize the Tower of Babel for what it is. Today we call it
multiculturalism.

Same effect whether you recognize it or not. It fragments homogenous
communities. The Assyrians were the first to use it: population transfer.

Do you find anything in the bible that precisely dates either sodom and
gomorrah or the tower of babel? I don't expect you will.

rich faussette
Received on Fri Mar 17 18:20:46 2006