Did Our Languages Come From the "Tower of Babel"?

 "Jehovah scattered them from there all over all the surface of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city. That is why its name was called Babel, because there Jehovah had confused the language of all the earth." - GENESIS 11:8, 9.

DID that even recorded in the Bible really happen? Did people start speaking different languages all at once, as described? Some scoff at the Bible's account of how human languages began to spread. One author claims: "The Tower of Babel myth is definitely one of the most absurd stories ever told." Even a Jewish rabbi called it "a naive attempt to explain the origin of nations." 

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