Medes,547 Arabians,548 as well as obvious choices such as Egypt and Libya.549 More significantly, Acts 2:9–11 shares about half the names found in Josephus’s updated table (Ant. 1.122–47).550 Luke’s probable allusion to Gen 10 (whatever other samples he may have added) here underlines his very likely allusion to the tower of Babel in the context.551 Many scholars understand Acts 2 as a reversal of the Babel story and believe that Luke patterned his narrative after
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