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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...

“Historical Criticism” is the label usually applied to what might be termed “mainline” biblical scholarship over the last two centuries or so. As James Barr has insisted, historical criticism is not strictly a method, but a loose umbrella that covers a range of methods (source criticism, form criticism, sociological criticism, etc.) that may sometimes be at odds with each other.8 In fact, it is not unusual to narrate the history of biblical scholarship as a succession
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