Hubert Bost

The Captivity of Innocence

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Breaking free from the compartmentalized exegesis of traditional commentaries, LaCocque suggests some lively, diverse, and somehow splintered leads of interpretation for Babel. Giving up the illusion of producing the meaning of the text, juxtaposing instead various approaches and ways to translate and understand it, he echoes the teaching of this moral tale : men's calling is to understand each other without denying their differences, without submitting to any unifying tyrant.”