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The Bible In Paintings, #8: THE TOWER OF BABEL
Bing Images
| c. 2000 BC -- c. 90 AD
| Father, Son & Holy Spirit
Posted on 06/27/2020 6:34:13 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
[Yes indeedy, boys and girls, I published #9 out-of-sequence just now,
so you get 2 for the price of 1 today!]
GENESIS 11:1-9 (NIV)
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
They said to each other, Come, lets make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babelbecause there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Here is the Bing page "TOWER OF BABEL IN ART showing various painters' conceptions. Several are serious works worthy of interest. Some examples:
by GUSTAV DORÉ
by ATHANASIUS KIRCHER
by an unknown artist
PALATINE CHAPEL MOSAIC
by PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER
by PIETER BRUEGEL THE YOUNGER
by PIETER BRUEGEL THE YOUNGER
byTOBIAS VERHAECHT
by PAUL GOSSELIN
by JOACHIM PATINIR
by MARTEN VAN VALCKENBORCH
by FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORCH
by FREDERIK VAN VALCKENBORGH
by an unknown artist
by HENDRICK VAN CLEVE
by HENDRICK VAN CLEVE
by TOMISLAV TOMIC
by MICHAEL LASSEL
by CORNELIUS ANTHONISZ
NumisCollect Coin
by a whimsical artist
Again, here is the Bing page "TOWER OF BABEL IN ART with many more images.
Also, here are links to compendia of three masters who painted Biblical scenes prolifically:
REMBRANT van RIJN
GUSTAV DORÉ
(illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours)
JAMES TISSOT
Finally, here are links to the PREVIOUS POSTS IN THIS SERIES.
SNEAK PEEK: Next time, GOD CALLS ABRAM
TOPICS: Apologetics; General Discusssion; History; Theology
KEYWORDS: bible; paintings
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To: Hebrews 11:6
Does anyone on FR make bricks or know someone who does?
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:38:06 AM PDT
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null and void
(It never ends when you go down that slippery slope of digging for the truth.)
To: null and void
Yeah, pretty much daily....
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posted on
06/27/2020 10:26:41 AM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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