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Marcus Carlson

Canonical Criticism and the Old Testament - 2 views

This one looks really interesting (and expensive), a source to address the complications of the canon and the Old Testament.

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started by Marcus Carlson on 15 Feb 10 no follow-up yet
Carlene Hill

Canonical Criticism - 31 views

I agree, Steve, which is why I asked the question about our understanding having a limit. I, too, believe we continue to learn through human-God interactions today. Martin Luther King Jr. is an exa...

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Joe MacDonald

Queer Theory - 34 views

Sterling, I really appreciate your point of view and am grateful you are challenging us to examine these texts. You are not being adversarial at all; please continue to challenge our thinking. Mary

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Carlene Hill

Form Criticism - 3 views

Form criticism is an approach to biblical studies that was originated by Old Testament scholar Hermann Gunkel (1862-1932). Though initially this form originated upon the principals of analyzing OT...

form criticism literary genre Hermann Gunkal Walter Brueggemann Rudolf Bultmann deconstruction

started by Carlene Hill on 22 Feb 10 no follow-up yet
Joe MacDonald

Historical Criticism | where are you coming from? | collaborative theology for the emer... - 0 views

  • Historical criticism attempts to find the world the text is set in and the world the text was written in. Historical criticism wants to know where the text is coming from.
  • It’s probably useful at this time to notice the intertextuality of the Bible. By this, I mean that the people writing were aware of everything that was written beforehand. This is especially noticeable when New Testament authors quote Old Testament sources. When we come across this in our reading we should take note of how the author echoes his source and how he re-interprets it.
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    This is a basic analysis of historical criticism. There is also a basic approach to understanding the process by which historical criticism might be utilized.
Joe MacDonald

Historical criticism - 0 views

  • The approach to the text of Sacred Scripture known as historical criticism began as far back as 1678, when Richard Simon, a Catholic priest, published a "critical history" of the Old Testament (placed on the Index of Prohibited Books in 1682).
  • This critical approach was taken up and fostered throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by liberal Protestant exegetes. In the late nineteenth century the assumption was firmly in place among these liberal scholars that the early chapters of the Book of Genesis were little more than a concatenation of myths and legends, and the search was under way for the history behind the fiction.
  • The historical critics eventually won the long and at times bitter fight for the ear of the hierarchy over the contested Replies of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, and the reason for this victory seems to have been a tactical error in the approach of the traditional Catholic exegetes who opposed them. Many of these traditional exegetes were able scholars, but they pitched their arguments against the historical critics more in terms of the questionable orthodoxy of the presuppositions and logical results of the form-critical method than by analyzing in detail and refuting the technical procedures of the method itself.
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    This article introduces historical criticism in the perspective of Catholic exegetical approaches from Richard Simons in the 17th century to the present.
Michael Hemenway

The dissemination of the centre - University of Copenhagen - 0 views

  • The Old Testament was created in periods of globalization, in the Persian and the Hellenistic-Roman period. The writings is a piece of memory work meant for creation of national or local identity and particularity in a global world, in the 1st millennium b.c.e. In a globalized world, counter-activity is always present, which focuses on the local, small tradition, the particular narrative, which creates its own way of coherence. The notion of "cultural memory" is used both in the humanities and in social science. Cultural memory appears as overwriting (palimpsests) and re-use of material artifacts, such as buildings, monuments, and texts, and of ritual practice. Memorization can be conscious or unconscious, incorporated in the body, and become visible material culture and monuments. The notion of landscape plays a crucial role in memory work, representing a special challenge in the project. People are never alone, but always relate to place, education, nation, family, religious and political groups, and so on. These collectives are the frames that direct people's comprehension of reality. This is the human context from which one also should look upon  memory and remembrance.
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      This paragraph highlights the essential relationship between memory, identity and social location. The Bible is merely one site of cultural memory in antiquity.
Michael Hemenway

BiCuM: The Centre for Bible and Cultural Memory - University of Copenhagen - 0 views

  • The notion of cultural memory is the decisive factor in a society's reconstruction of the past through a number of media. BiCuM investigates how memory is a fundamental instrument in the formation of cultural, religious, ethnic, and national identity in the Old Testament. The research of the Centre demands an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on relevant studies of the Eastern Mediterranean area in Antiquity.
    • Michael Hemenway
       
      Here is a nice, brief description of cultural memory and the aims of this centre.
Angie Steinhauer

Source Criticism Defined - 2 views

Source Criticism is the tool used to identify the original document that a biblical author utilized when they wrote a book for the Bible. This process identifies 4 major sources (credited to Julius...

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started by Angie Steinhauer on 14 Mar 10 no follow-up yet
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