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Higher criticism

Higher criticism Meaning & Definition
Higher criticism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Higher criticism?

[n] the scientific study of biblical writings to determine their origin and meaning

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Higher criticism In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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