The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern AgeBiblical 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 the effect of the postmodern situation on biblical,