They were influenced by parallels with the parables of the warring king and of the tower builder found in the Gospel of Luke (see Counting the cost), and by the "scandalous nature of the image."

Unlike the outcome in Shinar, where the tower builders were thwarted by a confusion of tongues, now investors are the frustrated ones.

The tower builder who never stopped?

Ivan Shcheblykin claimed that that tower builders did not need any scaffolding, and many researchers make that assumption.

We talked to the descendants of the tower builders, and they told me that a H'eeaq ship had called; a year ago, a century ago, a thousand years-it was all the same to them.

And besides, God was mistaken to think that a single language could confer unlimited power on the tower builders (verse 6).

Mark Mirsky, the editor of Fiction magazine, eloquently described the tower builders as engaged in a deluded burlesque of divine power, seeking heaven by technology.

Broadcasters and tower builders call it a Sisyphean mission.

But in July, over Mr. Altadonna's protests, the Village Board voted 3 to 2 to settle a $30 million federal lawsuit brought against the village by the tower builder and a cellular service company.

The Tusci were therefore the "people who build towers" or "the tower builders."