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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...

of languages has come to symbolize the celebration of diversity. In the context of biblical studies, historical criticism, or the dominant mode of biblical criticism for the last two centuries or so, has been cast as the tower, and the confusion of languages is taken as the joyful eruption of a chatter of new approaches. The issue, of course, is not what the biblical text of Genesis 11 “really meant.” Some postmodern critics would deny that a text has any “real meaning” at all. The story simply provides
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