Week 2 - Jesus/Gospels - Historical Criticism

Scholars use ? criticism to deny Scripture and the support a bias against supernaturalism

Redaction criticism is frequently used to reconstruct the community and purposes of the authors of the text.

puts its focus on the period of oral tradition and sees the Bible as a collection of traditional stories and sayings

study of the collection, orchestration, editing, and modification of Biblical sources

quest for the earliest sources which lie behind a given biblical text.

Historical Criticism investigates the origins of ancient texts in order to understand "the world behind the text"

The form critic then theorizes on the pericope's Sitz im Leben ("setting in life"), the setting in which it was composed

What are source, form, and redaction criticism?