Biblical criticism is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible without appealing to the supernatural. During the eighteenth century...

century Biblical criticism, the term "higher criticism" was commonly used in mainstream scholarship in contrast to "lower criticism" (textual criticism). Historical...

Research, and the Catholic Biblical Association. Biblical criticism is the scholarly "study and investigation of biblical writings that seeks to make...

history and on cultures around the globe. The study of it through biblical criticism has indirectly impacted culture and history as well. The Bible is...

Source criticism, in biblical criticism, refers to the attempt to establish the sources used by the authors and redactors of a biblical text. It originated...

The phrase Biblical exegesis can be used to distinguish studies of the Bible from other critical textual explanations. Textual criticism investigates...

Canonical criticism, sometimes called canon criticism or the canonical approach, is a way of interpreting the Bible that focuses on the text of the biblical canon...

Form criticism as a method of biblical criticism classifies units of scripture by literary pattern and then attempts to trace each type to its period...

Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation. It can equate to the dictionary definition...

Biblical inerrancy is the belief that the Bible "is without error or fault in all its teaching"; or, at least, that "Scripture in the original manuscripts...

works. The study of biblical manuscripts is important because handwritten copies of books can contain errors. Textual criticism attempts to reconstruct...

Increasingly, the biblical works have been subjected to literary and historical criticism in an effort to interpret the biblical texts, independent of...

chapters of 1 Samuel, she is not otherwise mentioned in the Bible. In the biblical narrative, Hannah is one of two wives of Elkanah. The other, Peninnah,...

The Professorship of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1861. The patron was formerly the Crown (i.e. a Regius...

Orthodox Jewish community allows for a wider array of biblical criticism to be used for biblical books outside of the Torah, and a few Orthodox commentaries...

and his male descendants and is known as the brit milah. Covenants in biblical times were often sealed by severing an animal, with the implication that...

2011, in their book Biblical History and Israel's Past. Academic view of Ezra Biblical archaeology school Biblical criticism Biblical inerrancy Rudolf Bultmann...

Psychological biblical criticism is a re-emerging field within biblical criticism that seeks to examine the psychological dimensions of scripture through...

tribes, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes. According to biblical scholar Kenneth Kitchen, this conquest should be dated slightly after 1200...

Hebrew: בִּלְעָם, Standard Bīlʿam Tiberian Bīlʿām), son of Beor, was a biblical character, a non-Israelite prophet and diviner who lived in Pethor which...

Biblical infallibility is the belief that what the Bible says regarding matters of faith and Christian practice is wholly useful and true. It is the "belief...

Among non-Orthodox Jews, there is growing interest in employing biblical source criticism, such as the Documentary hypothesis and the Supplementary hypothesis...

legends, most notably in the Testament of Solomon (part of first-century biblical apocrypha). The historicity of Solomon is hotly debated. Current consensus...

by, questions raised by biblical inerrancy, biblical infallibility, biblical interpretation, biblical criticism, and biblical law in Christianity. While...

Biblical Aramaic is the form of Aramaic that is used in the books of Daniel and Ezra in the Hebrew Bible. It should not be confused with the Targums –...

(1999). "Source Criticism". In Haynes, Stephen R.; McKenzie, Steven L. (eds.). To Each Its Own Meaning: An Introduction to Biblical Criticisms and Their Application...

In biblical studies, the Urtext is the theorized original, uniform text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), preceding both the Septuagint (LXX) and the Masoretic...

leader of the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan. According to the biblical narrative, Jeroboam, who became the first king of the Northern Kingdom...

(2004), Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice, Illinois: Waveland. Yee, Gale. Judges and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies. Minneapolis...

Biblical languages are any of the languages employed in the original writings of the Bible. Partially owing to the significance of the Bible in society...