Glossary
The Babel-builder giant whose punishment is incomprehensible speech, making him a figure of failed linguistic empire.
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Nimrod
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...And then to me. He's his own accuser. For this is Nimrod, through whose wicked thought one single language cannot serve the world. Leave..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...And then to me. He's his own accuser. For this is Nimrod, through whose wicked thought one single language cannot serve the world. Leave..."
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Jiang glosses Nimrod as the builder of the Tower of Babel and says his punishment is incomprehensible speech.
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"...And then to me. He's his own accuser. For this is Nimrod, through whose wicked thought one single language cannot serve the world. Leave..."
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"For every language is to him the same as his to others. No one knows his tongue."
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"So Nimrod, of course, is the man who built the Tower of Babel, right? And for his crime, he now, whatever he says is..."
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"...their father, gazing upon the giant's scattered limbs. I saw bewildered Nimrod at the foot of his labor, great labor, watching him where those..."
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"...The tongue I spoke was all extinct before the men of Nimrod set their minds upon the unaccompanied. For never has anything produced by..."
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"...of the gods upon them, that task is beyond comprehension for Nimrod had performed the creation with the skill of Marduk. King Marduk divided..."
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