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   From: tonyofbexarnospam@yahoo.dk   
      
   On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:00:09 GMT, Blak  wrote:   
      
   snip   
   >make a celebrated name for themselves. However, Jehovah thwarts their   
   >intention by confusing their language, and so scatters them. The city is   
   >called Babel (meaning “Confusion”)   
      
   The city was called Bab-ilu meaning "gate of God".  Just additional   
   evidence that the authors were writing fiction.   
      
   Thomas P.   
      
   "Life must be lived forwards but understood backwards"   
      
   (Kierkegaard)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)