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Geocriticism is a method of literary analysis and literary theory that incorporates the study of geographic space. The term designates a number of different critical practices. In France, Bertrand Westphal has elaborated the concept of géocritique in several works. [1] In the United States, Robert Tally has argued for a geocriticism as a ...
Authority (textual criticism) The authority of a text is its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions. These intentions could be initial, medial or final, but intentionalist editors (most notably represented by Fredson Bowers and G. Thomas Tanselle editing school) generally attempt to retrieve final authorial intentions. The concept ...
Bruce M. Metzger. Bruce Manning Metzger (February 9, 1914 – February 13, 2007) was an American biblical scholar, Bible translator and textual critic, a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor of the American Bible Society and United Bible Societies. He was a scholar of Greek, and New Testament textual criticism ...
Lorenzo Valla. Portrait of Valla made for Jean-Jacques Boissard 's Icones quinquaginta virorum illustrium in 1597–1599. Lorenzo Valla ( Italian: [loˈrɛntso ˈvalla]; also Latinized as Laurentius; c. 1407 – 1 August 1457) was an Italian Renaissance humanist, [1] rhetorician, educator and scholar.
Historical criticism (also known as the historical-critical method or higher criticism) is a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts in order to understand "the world behind the text" [1] and emphasizes a process that "delays any assessment of scripture’s truth and relevance until after the act of interpretation has ...
Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Bible (the Old Testament and New Testament ). [1] [2] For its theory and methods, the field draws on disciplines ranging from ancient history, historical criticism, philology, theology, textual criticism, literary criticism, historical backgrounds ...
Criticism of religion. The Quran is viewed to be the scriptural foundation of Islam and is believed by Muslims to have been sent down by Allah (God) and revealed to Muhammad by the angel Jabreel ( Gabriel ). The Quran has been subject to criticism both in the sense of being the subject of an interdisciplinary field of study where secular ...
