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biblical criticism

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biblical criticism

Study of the content and origin of the Bible. Lower or textual criticism is directed towards the recovery of the original text; higher or documentary criticism is concerned with questions of authorship, date, and literary sources; historical criticism seeks to ascertain the actual historical content of the Bible, aided by archaeological discoveries and the ancient history of neighbouring peoples.



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6) Teaching biblical criticism allowed universities to navigate a middle road between those American clergy who thought that universities were terribly godless places (because they were teaching evolution in their science departments), and those proponents of evolution who thought that universities were too God-centered, on account of their denominational affiliations.
What does it mean to receive tradition? Jewish studies in higher ... by Kavka, Martin / Cross Currents
Over the course of the next century, biblical criticism became a force to reckon with--a growing body of research that undermined the naive scriptural literalism of earlier generations.
A fundamentally wrong direction by Roszak, Theodore / The Humanist
Subsequent volumes will discuss interpretation in the medieval and Reformation periods; the rise of modern biblical criticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and the twentieth century.
A History of Biblical Interpretation. Volume 1: The Ancient Period by Strickert, Fred / Currents in Theology and Mission
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