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Nature Of Biblical Criticism

by John Barton

  • Paperback
  • 300 pages
  • Publisher: Westminster John Knox
  • 16.6 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm

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Biblical criticism faces increasing hostility on two fronts: from biblical conservatives, who claim it is inherently positivistic and religiously skeptical, and from postmodernists, who see it as driven by the falsities of objectivity and neutrality. In this magisterial overview of the key factors and developments in biblical studies, John Barton demonstrates that these evaluations of biblical criticism fail to do justice to the work that has been done by critical scholars over many generations. Traditional biblical criticism has had as its central concern a semantic interest: a desire to establish the "plain sense" of the biblical text, which in itself requires sensitivity to many literary aspects of texts. Therefore, he argues, biblical criticism already includes many of the methodological approaches now being recommended as alternatives to it - and, further, the agenda of biblical studies is far less fragmented than often thought.
Nature Of Biblical Criticism and The Hebrew Bible: A Critical Companion
The Hebrew Bible: A Critical CompanionNature Of Biblical Criticism

  • Author

    John Barton

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Westminster John Knox

  • Published

    June 2007

  • Weight

    300g

  • Page Count

    300

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780664225872

  • ISBN-10

    066422587X

  • Eden Code

    1122528

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