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1 - A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism

from Part I - Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2022

By
Paul Michael Kurtz
Edited by
Ian Boxall  and
Bradley C. Gregory
Ian Boxall
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Bradley C. Gregory
Affiliation:
Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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Summary

This chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.

Keywords

Kritikbiblical criticismphilologyhistoriography
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The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation , pp. 15 - 36
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Conybeare, Catherine, and Goldhill, Simon, eds. Classical Philology and Theology: Entanglement, Disavowal and the Godlike Scholar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heschel, Susannah. Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.Google Scholar
Kurtz, Paul Michael. Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan: The Religion of Israel in Protestant Germany, 1871–1918. FAT I/122. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Legaspi, Michael. The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies. OSHT. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Marchand, Suzanne L. German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship. Publications of the German Historical Institute. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.Google Scholar
Rogerson, John. Old Testament Criticism in the Nineteenth-Century: England and Germany. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.Google Scholar
Sæbø, Magne, ed. Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation. 3 vols. in 5 parts. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996–2015.Google Scholar
Sheehan, Jonathan. The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Turner, James. Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Seters, John. The Edited Bible: The Curious History of the “Editor” in Biblical Criticism. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2006.Google Scholar

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