At the same time as archaeological and literary efforts offered new texts for consideration, scholars were also developing new ways to
ask questions of the texts.
One invaluable aspect of it was being taught to think critically about scripture and to wrestle with it and ask
deeper questions of the text, such as: «Who wrote that passage?
Mikics argues that, in contrast to most of the fast reading that we do, we also need to learn to read slowly and to ask
good questions of the texts we read.
Other scholars use more radically modified methods of literary criticism proceeding from the basic assumption of multiple sources; and in Germany in the past few decades interest has shifted to a different approach known as form criticism which asks
different questions of the text.
The congregation I serve is welcoming and affirming of the LGBTQ community because of Scripture, we are involved in alleviating hunger because of Scripture, we think God calls all sorts of genders to preach because of Scripture, etc... I
ask questions of the text and the text asks questions of my life; I love that.
This problem leads us to another,
the question of the text of Luke 22:19 b - 20.