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 (HCM) or higher criticism, in contrast to lower criticism or textual criticism) is...
- supernatural. During the eighteenth century, when it began as historical-biblical criticism, it was based on two distinguishing characteristics: (1) the...
- Historian Michael Grant ****erts that if conventional standards of historical criticism are applied to the New Testament, "we can no more reject Jesus' existence...
- Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something. Criticism can range from impromptu comments...
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- internal consistency, criticism related to materialism (both philosophical and historical), arguments that Marxism is a type of historical determinism or that...
- "Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes", "Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols", "Archetypal Criticism: A Theory of Myths", and "Rhetorical Criticism:...
- (Gabriel). Muslims have not used historical criticism in the study of the Quran, but they have used textual criticism in a similar way used by Christians...
- the field of criticism is between historical criticism and evaluation, a form of art history, and contemporary criticism of work by living artists. Despite...
- viewed as another historical-critical technique which can take its place alongside of source criticism, form criticism, rhetorical criticism, and the like...