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The term “biblical criticism” simply means discerning the most accurate text of the Bible (“textual criticism”) and then exploring issues such as who wrote the various books of the Bible, when they were written, and the circumstances of the writing (“higher criticism”). Yet because the word “criticism” can imply fault-finding and because some prominent biblical critics come to their study with a...
Where the original documents have been lost, as has happened with all the books of the Bible, the original wording must be ascertained, as far as possible, by a critical comparison of the surviving copies. This operation is known as textual criticism. It is plainly an operation of basic importance, for until we have established the original wording with reasonable certainty, we cannot proceed to further lines of study which depend to a large extent on the precise wording of the text. For this reason
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