The “one language and common speech” of Babel was not a primordial unity but the result of ruthless imperialism
This has been Interfaith Week, and though disputation between faiths is ancient, respectful conversation between them is new. It was born in the shadow of the Holocaust as Jews and Christians reflected on the centuries of antagonism between them.
Is there, though, a warrant for such conversation in the Bible itself? One in particular can be found by a close reading of an ancient text.
Read the Bible carefully and you will see that its entire focus shifts between the 11th and 12th chapters of Genesis. Until then its subject has been humanity as a whole. Adam and Eve, Cain