Welcome to After The Facts, it's a Knowing Faith mini episode where we look to take a big question and address it in just a few minutes. Typically the questions we consider will line up

with our larger topic for the season. That's certainly true for our time today.

We're discussing Genesis 1 through 11 on knowing faith

this season. Today I get to chat with Dr. Tracy McKinsey. Dr. McKinsey is the

Associate Professor of Old Testament in Hebrew at the southeastern Baptist

Theological Seminary.

If you want to find something that's just absolutely fascinating,

you can go to Southeastern Review.com

and check out the article he just published on Proverbs 30

entitled The Divine Devitic Sun. and so you can find that at

southeastern review.com Dr McKinsey welcome to after the fact thanks for joining us

yeah you bet so great to be with you Kyle absolutely So here's the big question for today.

Is there anything interesting happening in the story of Babble in Genesis 11 that maybe we might miss

just reading it right in front of us?

It's just a simple reading may not show us this

incredible or funny or interesting thing happening in the story of the Tower

of Babel in Genesis 11. Well that's really a great question Kyle and as

matter of fact there is you know the inhabitants of

Shinar there in that valley there at where this story is told in Genesis 11

want to make a great name for themselves and what is interesting here is what

the biblical authors do with these words like this word name.

The biblical authors really the author here in Genesis 1 through 11

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