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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Authority Control Librarian (currently on leave) City University of New York ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
