How Tall Was The Tower Of Babel? - EBible

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Mini Tim Maas Supporter Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army The Bible does not mention a specific height, only saying that the builders intended it to reach "to the heavens", which is simply an idiom expressing great height, without indicating any specific measurement. Various non-Scriptural sources (over a period of many centuries) vary widely (as well as wildly) in their accounts or estimates of the tower's purported height. These include: 8,150 feet (the Book of Jubilees) 695 feet (Third Apocalypse of Baruch) 300 feet (Orosius)(c. AD 417) 4,000 paces (3.68 miles)(Giovanni Villani)(AD 1300) 8 miles (John Mandeville)(AD 1300) 5,164 paces (4.7 miles)(Isidore of Seville)(c. AD 560-636) Modern calculations have determined that a tower made of stone blocks and built with parallel walls in the form of a square or rectangle could theoretically have been built to a height of 1.3 miles (over 6,800 feet) before the blocks at the base of the tower would have been crushed beneath the structure's weight. However, a tower built with walls that tapered as they went up could theoretically have been built to a height that would have been so great that the constraining factor on its height would not have been the crushing of the base, but the fact that the workers at the top of the structure would not have had sufficient oxygen to enable them to continue to work.

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