οτι ήκουον εις έκαστος τη ίδία διαλέκτφ λαλούντων αυτών-Functions two:6 C ONTEMPORARY TRANSLATION theory has seized upon the Tale of Ba bel as its touchstone. We Are living "after Babel," claims a single contempo rary theorist; 2 another thinks which the story of Babel "can offer an epigraph for all di