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| Lower and Higher Criticism |
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Lower: reader's first step, trying to establish what the text originally said.
Higher: Identifying author and addressees, etc. |
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| Comparing manuscripts in order to determine which is most likely to be authentic. |
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| Seeks to determine which sources a writing is based on. Sources may be either oral or written. |
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| Traditio-Historical Criticism |
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| Concerned with tradition and history, locus of revelation shifts away from the text to the history of the text. |
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| Used to analyze formal features of a text, such as literary patterns. Then these writings are grouped. |
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| Refinement of form criticism, redaction critics are more concerned not with pre-history, but instead with where tradition has been edited. |
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| Further refinement of redaction. Concerned with how changes affect a work as a whole, rather than a certain theological point. |
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| Gives more attention to the reader and how he or she will respond. |
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| Concerned with the text in its final form, also concerned with the whole canon of texts. |
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