οτι ήκουον εις έκαστος τη ίδία διαλέκτφ λαλούντων αυτών-Functions 2:six C ONTEMPORARY TRANSLATION theory has seized on the story of Ba bel as its touchstone. We Are living "after Babel," says one particular contempo rary theorist; 2 A different thinks that the story of Babel "can provide an epigraph fo