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
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...
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...
Reader-response Criticsm - 24 views
This approach is in direct contrast to the approach which I studied. I enjoy this approach much better, because there is room for theological interpretation. In historical criticism that is not t...
Redaction Criticism - 22 views
Brenda, I like your words "we come away with a greater understanding of the text's message and an invitation to find our connection to it". I have not really thought about reading scripture this wa...
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...
How To Read Bible Stories - 10 views
Schawn, Perhaps you could save yourself some work by simply bookmarking these websites (e.g. worldcat), rather than starting a topic and including the website in your topic. If you just browse to...
Social-Scientific Criticism (Starliper) - 13 views
This approach is so much different than than the narrative approach I looked into! I'm suprised to see that a primary criticism for the social-scientific method is that it is too subjective. It s...
Feminist Biblical Criticism - 9 views
I too, like Schawn, had limited to no experience with Feminism and Feminist Scholarship before I came to Iliff. In fact, the only exposure I had was in an Introductory Theology Class where we were ...
Postcolonial Biblical Criticism - 10 views
Sue, this is a marvelous summary of a complicated approach. thanks. Dube is a marvelous read!
More than One way to Read a Book - 8 views
Sterling, are there a few biblical scholars you found that apply this approach well?
Source Criticism - 9 views
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_criticism_(Biblical_studies) Source criticism, as the term is used in biblical criticism, refers to the attempt to establish the sources used by the author and/...
What is Narrative Criticism? by Mark Allan Powell - 5 views
nontechnical description of the principles and procedures of narrative criticism. Written for students' and pastors' use in their own exegesis.
Rhetorical Criticism - 4 views
Narrative Criticism - 4 views
Narrative Criticism is a modern critical approach to Biblical reading. It treats the text as a whole, rather than in parts such as is common in the more historical critical approaches of the 18th c...
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...
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.
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...
Historical Criticism - 1 views
Biblical historical-criticism is an exegetical approach to study that is mainly concerned with the factual evidence of the culture in which the text originated. Those who utilize this type of crit...