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Biblical criticism is an umbrella term covering various techniques for applying literary historical-critical methods in analyzing and studying the Bible and its textual content. Biblical criticism is also known as higher criticism, literary criticism, and historical criticism. Biblical criticism has done nothing more than weaken and demoralize people's assurance in the Bible as being the inspired...

the terms diachronic and synchronic forms of criticism. The diachronic form of criticism is concerned about the development of the scriptural texts over time. The other form (synchronic) focuses upon the text, as it exists at a particular moment – meaning the text we have today.457 This concept of focusing on the text’s form and content is called New Criticism, or Formal Criticism.458 While this direction of formal criticism became prominent in the 1920’s, it flourished in the United States during the
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