Re: [Ha-Safran] Abraham's age for the Tower of Babel event

[Stanley Nachamie]

According to timelines in the ArtScroll Tanach and
Aryeh Kaplan's Living Torah, the Tower of Babel event
occurred in the year 1996, and Abraham was born in
1948, so that would make him 48 at the time of the
Tower of Babel event.  (Did you also want primary
sources for this chronology?)

I always thought it interesting that Abraham was born
in 1948 according to the Jewish calendar, vis-a-vis
what happened in 1948 according to the Christian
calendar ...

-Stanley Nachamie
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  City University of New York

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[Ha-Safran] Abraham's age for the Tower of Babel event

[Rose Myers]

I have a parent at my school who is looking for the
connection between Abraham and the tower of Babel;
she has seen a reference to his being 48 years old at
the time of the building of the Tower of Babel but
cannot find the source.  Anyone know what it is or
where to find it?

Thanks,
Rose Myers
Hillel Academy
Fairfield, CT

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