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The Nature of Biblical Criticism

2007-01-01 Religion
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Book Synopsis The Nature of Biblical Criticism by : John Barton

Download or read book The Nature of Biblical Criticism written by John Barton. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical criticism faces increasing hostility on two fronts: from biblical conservatives, who claim it is inherently positivistic and religiously skeptical, and from postmodernists, who see it as driven by the falsities of objectivity and neutrality. In this magisterial overview of the key factors and developments in biblical studies, John Barton demonstrates that these evaluations of biblical criticism fail to do justice to the work that has been done by critical scholars over many generations. Traditional biblical criticism has had as its central concern a semantic interest: a desire to establish the "plain sense" of the biblical text, which in itself requires sensitivity to many literary aspects of texts. Therefore, he argues, biblical criticism already includes many of the methodological approaches now being recommended as alternatives to it and, further, the agenda of biblical studies is far less fragmented than often thought.

The Books of Nature and Scripture

2013-03-09 Social Science
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Release : 2013-03-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Books of Nature and Scripture by : J.E. Force

Download or read book The Books of Nature and Scripture written by J.E. Force. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and other aspects of their particular philosophies. This collection represents the best current research in this area. It stands alone as the only work to bring together the best current work on these topics. Its primary audience is specialised scholars of the thought of Newton and Spinoza as well as historians of the philosophical ideas of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

BIBLICAL CRITICISM

2017-10-29 Religion
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Book Synopsis BIBLICAL CRITICISM by : Edward D. Andrews

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Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

2017-10-06 Religion
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Book Synopsis Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age by : Henk Nellen

Download or read book Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age written by Henk Nellen. This book was released on 2017-10-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion under the influence of vehement debates on the sacrosanct status of the Bible. Until quite recently, this gradual but decisive shift has been attributed to the rise of the sciences, in particular astronomy and physics. This authoritative volume looks at biblical criticism as an innovative force and as the outcome of developments in philology that had started much earlier than scientific experimentalism or the New Philosophy. Scholars began to situate the Bible in its historical context. The contributors show that even in the hands of pious, orthodox scholars philological research not only failed to solve all the textual problems that had surfaced, but even brought to light countless new incongruities. This supplied those who sought to play down the authority of the Bible with ammunition. The conviction that God's Word had been preserved as a pure and sacred source gave way to an awareness of a complicated transmission in a plurality of divergent, ambiguous, historically determined, and heavily corrupted texts. This shift took place primarily in the Dutch Protestant world of the seventeenth century.

Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism

2005-10-21 Religion
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Book Synopsis Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism by : Jeffrey H. Tigay

Download or read book Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism written by Jeffrey H. Tigay. This book was released on 2005-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern critical scholarship has concluded that the books of the Hebrew Bible have not reached us in their original form but are the products of lengthy evolution. Many of these books are thought to combine the works of more than one author or age and to have undergone considerable revision. Tigay and the other contributors use comparisons of various texts from ancient Mesopotamia and post-exilic Israel. Such comparisons show that the sort of development of biblical literature that nineteenth-century critics were led to postulate from close study of the texts alone is characteristic of many ancient Near Eastern texts. 'Empirical Models for Biblical Criticism' is of value to scholars interested in the Old Testament, as well as religion, theology, Jewish studies, Near Eastern studies, and comparative literature.

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