Sentences with phrase «biblical source criticism»

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Buber calls his treatment of Biblical history «tradition criticism» as distinct from «source criticism.»

Whereas Wellhausen had challenged the historical reliability of the biblical account on the grounds that it was compiled from multiple sources that originated long after the events reported, his intellectual successors a century later were employing methodologies (such as rhetorical criticism and narrative criticism) that seemed to assume that the biblical writers were not particularly concerned with historical accuracy anyhow.

And what biblical scholars have called literary criticism — source analysis, the search for the author and his intention, redaction criticism as usually practiced (with some recent exceptions), etc. — are really forms of historical criticism.

As a result, what they called literary criticism was rapidly reduced to the search for the written sources lying behind the biblical books.

An important footnote to this chapter in the development of modern biblical scholarship is the fact that source criticism was often called (and still is sometimes called) «literary criticism.»