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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume II

Book Sixteen — the tower of Babel and the division of tongues

FIRST DISPUTATION. Whether it was all the men who then were on the earth, or only some part of them, who came together to build the city and tower of Babel

LatineEnglish

FIRST DISPUTATION. Whether it was all the men who then were on the earth, or only some part of them, who came together to build the city and tower of Babel.1

PRIMA DISPUTATIO. Utrum fuerint omnes homines qui tunc erant in terris, an aliqua tantum eorum pars, qui convenerunt ad aedificandam civitatem et turrim Babel.

Translator’s notes

  1. Liber XVI, Disputation 1 (title): did all men then living, or only some, gather to build Babel? ↩