This podcast takes a second look at Babel, with a focus on the structure of the story, and its themes. It includes “homework” for which you should ideally have a photocopy of Genesis 11:1-9 (preferably in a fairly literal translation like NRSV, RSV, TNIV, NIV, ESV…) and some coloured markers or crayons.
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This chapter is the beginning of the Bible, and beginnings are important. We learn why the world was made, and how God is “different”.
Among other structural details we will notice is this one (the diagramme may help as you listen):
| Day | Creation | Day | Creation | |
| One | Light | Four | Luminaries | |
| Two | Water and Sky | Five | Birds and Sea Creatures | |
| Three | Land and Vegetation | Six | Land animals (inc. Humans) |
