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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
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...

canonical criticism

started by Marcus Carlson on 16 Feb 10 12 follow-ups, last by Carlene Hill on 22 Feb 10
Aaron Pope

Compromise formations: current ... - Google Books - 0 views

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psychoanalytic

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  • Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10
     
    A collection of essays on the modern forms of psychoanalytic criticism gathered from the Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology (Aug 7-9, 1987) hosted at Kent State University.
Schawn Kellogg

Biblical criticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views

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narrative

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  • Narrative criticism is one of a number of modern forms of criticism based in contemporary literary theory and practice - in this case, from narratology. In common with other literary approaches (and in contrast to historical forms of criticism), narrative criticism treats the text as a unit, and focusses on narrative structure and composition, plot development, themes and motifs, characters and characterisation.[14] Narrative criticism is a complex field, but some central concerns include the reliability of the narrator, the question of authorial intent (expressed in terms of the context in which the text was written and its presumed intended audience), and the implications of multiple interpretation (meaning an awareness that a narrative is capable of more than one i
    • Schawn Kellogg
      Schawn Kellogg on 11 Feb 10
       
      a nice introductory description
Mandy Todd Moore

Amazon.com: What is Redaction Criticism? (9781579105457): Norman Perrin - 1 views

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redaction

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  • Mandy Todd Moore on 15 Feb 10
     
    This book is highly regarded as the formative text on Redaction Criticism. Unfortunately, it is unavailable on Google Books. ISBN: 1579105459
Michael Hemenway

Cultural memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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memory cultural

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  • Crucial in understanding cultural memory as a phenomenon is the distinction between memory and history. This distinction was put forward by Pierre Nora, who pinpointed a niche in-between history and memory. Simply put, memories are the events that actually happened, while histories are subjective representations of what historians believe is crucial to remember. This dichotomy, it should be noted, emerged at a particular moment in history: it implies that there used to be a time when memories could exist as such — without being representational.
    • Michael Hemenway
      Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
       
      This is am important discussion. Though I may not agree with Nora here, this is a common depiction of the relationship between history and memory, with memory being the raw material for histories.
  • Either in visualized or abstracted form, one of the largest complications of memorializing our past is the inevitable fact that it is absent. Every memory we try to reproduce becomes – as Terdiman states – a 'present past'. It is this impractical desire for recalling what is gone forever that brings to surface a feeling of nostalgia, noticeable in many aspects of daily life but most specifically in cultural products.
  • German Egyptologists Jan Assmann in his book "Das kulturelle Gedächtnis",
  • Michael Hemenway on 10 Feb 10
     
    Nice, generic introduction to the field of cultural memory studies. Nothing particularly related to Bible, except the mentions of Jan Assmann, who writes extensively on history, memory and the bible (Moses the Egyptian).
  • Pamela Eisenbaum on 13 Feb 10
     
    Unlike most other theory and method, it would seem that this one has been pioneered by scholars in the field (Bible and ancient text-study)
Michael Hemenway

Cultural Memory and the Bible - 17 views

Sterling, you are absolutely right. cultural memory theory is indebted to oral tradition studies and this is how cultural memory initially came to be applied to the biblical text as a means of und...

memory cultural bible summary

started by Michael Hemenway on 14 Feb 10 4 follow-ups, last by Michael Hemenway on 17 Feb 10
Angie Steinhauer

Probing Scripture - 0 views

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source

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  • Angie Steinhauer on 18 Feb 10
     
    Whereas historical study tended to be concerned with the prehistory of the text (oral traditions and written source materials) and with its development through successive redactions, literary study focused on the final form of the text.
Joe MacDonald

Historical Criticism - 0 views

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historical criticism

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  • Historical criticism is the art of distinguishing the true from the false concerning facts of the past. It has for its object both the documents which have been handed down to us and the facts themselves. We may distinguish three kinds of historical sources: written documents, unwritten evidence; and tradition. As further means of reaching a knowledge of the facts there are three processes of indirect research, viz.: negative argument, conjecture, and a priori argument.
  • The critic must now make the best possible use of the written sources at his disposal, i. e. he must understand them well, which is not always an easy matter. His difficulty may arise from the obscurity of certain words, from their grammatical form, or from their grouping in the phrase he seeks to interpret. As to the sense of the individual words it is supremely important that the critic should be able to read the documents in the language in which they were written rather than in translations.
  • In general, whenever there is occasion to verify the exactness of a quotation made in support of a thesis, it is prudent to read the entire chapter whence it is taken, sometimes even to read the whole work. An individual testimony, isolated from all its surroundings in an author's work, seems often quite decisive, yet when we read the work itself our faith in the value of the argument based on such partial quotation is either very much shaken or else disappears entirely.
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  • What is now the value of a text rightly understood? Every historical statement or testimony naturally suggests two questions: Has the witness in question a proper knowledge of the fact concerning which he is called to testify? And if so, is he altogether sincere in his deposition? On an impartial answer to these questions depends the degree of confidence to be accorded to his testimony.
  • Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10
     
    This is a Catholic work dated in 1908. One can see the negotiation of science and faith in the writing. While Kantian terms such as a priori and a sence of evaluating data, there is a space for accepting unquantified data as part of the author's definition of historical criticism.
  • Carlene Hill on 22 Feb 10
     
    I think that when we start to talk about what is authentic in the Bible versus what isn't authentic can lead us to call things "false" or untrue when in fact the stories may very well be true and authentic, just not in the modern way of what we deem as true. This is why I found Philip Davies commentary posted by Michael H. quite helpful because it talks about reading the Bible from the perspective of what the writer or scribe was trying to convey to his audience instead of reading from the perspective of trying to figure out for example, if hundreds of thousands of Hebrew people actually lived and survived in the desert for more than forty years.
Joe MacDonald

Historical criticism - 0 views

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historical criticism

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  • 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.
  • Joe MacDonald on 19 Feb 10
     
    This article introduces historical criticism in the perspective of Catholic exegetical approaches from Richard Simons in the 17th century to the present.
Sterling Field

Theory of Deconstruction - 0 views

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Derrida Deconstruction

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  • Sterling Field on 15 Feb 10
     
    Right off of Wikipedia: Theory Derrida began speaking and writing publicly at a time when the French intellectual scene was experiencing an increasing rift between what could broadly be called "phenomenological" and "structural" approaches to understanding individual and collective life. For those with a more phenomenological bent the goal was to understand experience by comprehending and describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event. For the structuralists, this was precisely the false problem, and the "depth" of experience could in fact only be an effect of structures which are not themselves experiential. It is in this context that in 1959 Derrida asks the question: Must not structure have a genesis, and must not the origin, the point of genesis, be already structured, in order to be the genesis of something?[3] In other words, every structural or "synchronic" phenomenon has a history, and the structure cannot be understood without understanding its genesis.[4] At the same time, in order that there be movement, or potential, the origin cannot be some pure unity or simplicity, but must already be articulated-complex-such that from it a "diachronic" process can emerge. This originary complexity must not be understood as an original positing, but more like a default of origin, which Derrida refers to as iterability, inscription, or textuality.[5] It is this thought of originary complexity, rather than original purity, which destabilises the thought of both genesis and structure, that sets Derrida's work in motion, and from which derive all of its terms, including deconstruction.[6] Derrida's method consisted in demonstrating all the forms and varieties of this originary complexity, and their multiple consequences in many fields. His way of achieving this was by conducting thorough, careful, sensitive, and yet transformational readings of philosophical and literary texts, with an ear to what in those texts runs counter
Michael Hemenway

More than One way to Read a Book - 8 views

Sterling, are there a few biblical scholars you found that apply this approach well?

Deconstruction Derrida Critique

started by Sterling Field on 15 Feb 10 2 follow-ups, last by Michael Hemenway on 17 Feb 10
suesaldin

Psychoanalytic Criticism - 28 views

Thanks, Aaron. You've hit on a lively topic in psychology - nature versus nurture. I agree that physiologically our human brain structure has been stable for an extraordinarily long time. I thin...

Psychoanalytic Criticism

started by Aaron Pope on 17 Feb 10 7 follow-ups, last by suesaldin on 18 Feb 10
Joe MacDonald

Biblical Research Institute - Historical Criticism - 0 views

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historical criticism

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  • The historical-critical method assumes the autonomy of the human scientist from the Bible as the word of God. It assumes that one must start with the secular world as a norm for determining meaning and for deciding what has happened in the past.
    • Joe MacDonald
      Joe MacDonald on 17 Feb 10
       
      Good definition, but there must be some component of the scientific process to be complete.
  • The science of historical criticism is a new method based upon a secular understanding of history. In its basic intent it therefore differs radically from biblical studies which arose out of the Reformation. The Reformation assumed that the content and production of Scripture resulted by the will of God rather than the will of man, and that, although the prophet himself operated within a historical situation and within a particular language, culture, and thought form, that he was nonetheless guided by the Holy Spirit in such a way that the result was the Word of God.
  • The historical-critical method has been under development since the age of the enlightenment. It was popularized for biblical studies by Ernst Troeltsch at the end of the nineteenth century. He enunciated three basic principles to guide the historian: (1) the principle of criticism or methodological doubt indicates that all knowledge relies upon the judgment of historical science and receives a status or probability, (2) the principle of analogy indicates that present experience is the criteria of probability for that which took place in the past—all events are in principle similar, (3) the principle of correlation indicates that events are so interrelated that a change in one phenomenon necessitates a change in its causes and effects
  • Joe MacDonald on 17 Feb 10
     
    Review of Historical Criticism in 1981. While it is very informative, the article leaves the historical criticsim within the hands of the critic.
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