Editing Tower of Babel (section)

===Gnosticism===
In [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] tradition recorded in the [[Paraphrase of Shem]], a tower, interpreted as the Tower of Babel, is brought by demons along with the [[Flood myth|great flood]]:

{{blockquote|And he caused the flood, and he destroyed your (Shem's) race, to take the light and to take away from faith. But I proclaimed quickly by the mouth of the demon that a tower come up to be up to the particle of light, which was left in the demons and their race – which was water – that the demon might be protected from the turbulent chaos. And the womb planned these things according to my will, that she might pour forth completely. A tower came to be through the demons. The darkness was disturbed by his loss. He loosened the muscles of the womb. And the demon who was going to enter the tower was protected so that the races might continue to acquire coherence through him.<ref>{{cite book|author1=[[Marvin Meyer]]|author2=[[Willis Barnstone]]|title=The Gnostic Bible|publisher=[[Shambhala Publications|Shambhala]]|chapter=The Paraphrase of Shem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1SEFmwEACAAJ|date= 2009|isbn=9781590306314 |access-date=2022-02-14}}</ref>}}[[File:Confusion of Tongues.png|thumb|upright=.9|''The Confusion of Tongues'' by [[Gustave Doré]], an [[engraving]] depicting the Tower of Babel]]