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A Specter is Haunting Babel - The Specter of Language
A Specter is Haunting Babel - The Specter of Language
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Kishik, David
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Abstract
Urban theology begins with a biblical tale of
two cities: Enoch, built by Cain, and Babel,
destroyed by God. The fact that the pithy
primeval story in Genesis 1-11 finds it
necessary to develop separate critiques of the
same phenomenon (soon to be tripled with
the account of Sodom and Gomorrah) is
enough to show why the city is seen not only
as the foundation of the created world, but
also as the fountain of our deepest human
anxieties. Assuming that all our modern
urban sensibilities are secularized theological
sensibilities, I will take in this talk a tiger’s
leap from the observation deck of the World
Trade Center to the locked room at the
seventh floor of the Babylonian Ziggurat.
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2017-03-31
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27:22 minutes
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Lecture