Ancient Texts

WAS THE ARK HEAVEN OR HELL?

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A Brief Debate by Basmat Hazan and Ruby Namdar                 Did Noah turn to drink after leaving the ark because he was sad to have left the heaven? Or traumautized from living in hell? “Drunkenness of Noah” by Giovanni BelliniBasmat: Ten generations after humans were created, not long after

LET US MAKE A NAME

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The Tower of Babel and the heroic futility of all human endeavors by Ruby Namdar             Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder The story of the tower of Babel – an opaque, mysterious and highly idiosyncratic tale – is, somewhat surprisingly, one of the most resonant and formative