Definition of historical criticism. Meaning of historical criticism. Synonyms of historical criticism

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Definition of historical criticism

historical criticism
Higher criticism High"er crit"i*cism Criticism which includes the study of the contents, literary character, date, authorship, etc., of any writing; as, the higher criticism of the Pentateuch. Called also historical criticism. The comparison of the Hebrew and Greek texts . . . introduces us to a series of questions affecting the composition, the editing, and the collection of the sacred books. This class of questions forms the special subject of the branch of critical science which is usually distinguished from the verbal criticism of the text by the name of higher, or historical, criticism. --W. Robertson Smith.

Meaning of historical criticism from wikipedia

- Historical criticism (also known as the historical-critical method or higher criticism) is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient...
- Historian Michael Grant ****erts that if conventional standards of historical criticism are applied to the New Testament, "we can no more reject Jesus' existence...
- supernatural. During the eighteenth century, when it began as historical-biblical criticism, it was based on two distinguishing characteristics: (1) the...
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- Literary criticism Art criticism Film criticism Theatre criticism Criticism of religion Criticism of science Self-criticism Social criticism "Criticism". Cambridge...
- Muhammad by the angel Jabreel (Gabriel). The Quran has been subject to criticism both in the sense of being the subject of an interdisciplinary field of...
- "Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes", "Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols", "Archetypal Criticism: A Theory of Myths", and "Rhetorical Criticism:...
- interpretation of these events. Historians s**** knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written do****ents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts...
- the field of criticism is between historical criticism and evaluation, a form of art history, and contemporary criticism of work by living artists. Despite...
- ranging from ancient history, historical criticism, philology, theology, textual criticism, literary criticism, historical backgrounds, mythology, and comparative...