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...
- 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...
- Literary criticism Art criticism Film criticism Theatre criticism Criticism of religion Criticism of science Self-criticism Social criticism "Criticism". Cambridge...
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- the field of criticism is between historical criticism and evaluation, a form of art history, and contemporary criticism of work by living artists. Despite...
- "Historical Criticism: Theory of Modes", "Ethical Criticism: Theory of Symbols", "Archetypal Criticism: A Theory of Myths", and "Rhetorical Criticism:...
- of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often...
- Criticism of monarchy has occurred since ancient times. It can be targeted against the general form of government—monarchy—or more specifically, to particular...
- Investigation of questions such as these are known as higher textual criticism. (The term "criticism" is a technical term denoting academic study.) In the 1870s...