Bible Question: What is "higher criticism"? What is "lower criticism"? |
Bible Answer: What are higher criticism and redaction criticism? 'Redaction criticism and higher criticism are just a few of many forms of Biblical criticism. Their intent is to investigate the scriptures and to make judgments concerning their authorship, historicity, and date of writing. Most of these methods end up attempting to destroy the text of the Bible. 'Biblical criticism can be broken into two major forms: higher and lower criticism. Lower criticism is an attempt to find the original wording of the text since we no longer have the original writings. Higher criticism deals with the genuineness of the text. Questions are asked such as: When was it really written? Who really wrote this text? 'Many critics in these camps do not believe in the inspiration of the scriptures and therefore use these questions to dispel the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the authors of our Scriptures. They believe that our Old Testament was simply a compilation of oral traditions, and were not actually written until after Israel was taken into captivity to Babylon in 586 B.C. 'Of course we can see in the scriptures that Moses wrote down the Law and the first 5 books of the Old Testament (called the Pentateuch)...' To read more go to: www.gotquestions.org/redaction-higher-criticism.html Recommended Resource: Scripture Alone by James White. ____________________ Related Topics: What is the documentary hypothesis? Does the Bible contain errors, contradictions, or discrepancies? What is sola scriptura? What is the Synoptic Problem? Has the Bible been corrupted, altered, edited, revised, or tampered with? |
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