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The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age is unavailable, but you can change that!

Biblical scholars today often sound as if they are caught in the aftermath of Babel—a clamor of voices unable to reach common agreement. Yet is this confusion necessarily a bad thing? Many postmodern critics see the recent profusion of critical approaches as a welcome opportunity for the emergence of diverse new techniques. In The Bible after Babel noted biblical scholar John J. Collins considers...

text. Neither is concerned to reconstruct the history behind the text or to support the claims of the text by appeal to any other kind of foundation.50 In view of the problems encountered by the Biblical Theology movement, and even by von Rad, a biblical theology that does not rely on history is attractive. It is also a strength of the approach that it embraces the whole canon and does not attempt to identify a “center.” Nonetheless, problems remain.51 Here I shall mention only two, which are among
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