Literary criticism versus public criticism : further thoughts on the matter of Biblical scholarship
The Biblical text, as it is known to us, is a literary text which is approached by the general reader as a literature manifested in a book format with a theological orientation. However, professional Biblical critics employ scientific analytical tools that might challenge the concept of a Biblical b...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2006
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Old Testament essays
Year: 2006, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 633-649 |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | The Biblical text, as it is known to us, is a literary text which is approached by the general reader as a literature manifested in a book format with a theological orientation. However, professional Biblical critics employ scientific analytical tools that might challenge the concept of a Biblical book as a complete work, presenting instead the Biblical literature as literary fragments with no concept of the whole. These two different approaches to the same text create a gap between the academic-professional analytical study of the Bible and the lay-theological reading of the Bible as a whole. Recently, a substantial change in the academic approach to the Scriptures has taken place and scholars intend to reach the general reader as well. However, the attempt to bridge between scholarship and a theologically oriented reading of the Bible as a whole seems to create a methodological confusion in the realm of scholarship. Thus, this essay seeks to explore the roots of the confusion through a clearer definition of the essence of Biblical professional criticism on the one hand, and a theological reading of the Bible as a whole, on the other. |
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| ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC85791 |