Historical Criticisms Flashcards
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_ examines the origins of earliest text to appreciate the underlying circumstances upon which the text came to be.
Historical criticism
Historical criticism has two important goals: _ and _.
- To discover the original meaning of the test in its primitive or historical context and its literal sense or sesus literalis hisoricus
- To establish a reconstruction of the historical situation of the author and recipients of the text
Historical criticism has two types: _ and _.
External criticism and internal criticism
Historical criticism has its roots in the 17th century during the Protestant Reformation and gained popular recognition in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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In historical criticism,
_ analyzes and studies the sources used by biblical authors.
Source Criticism
In historical criticism,
_ seeks to determine a unit’s original form and historical context of the literary tradition.
Form criticism
In historical criticism,
_ regards the author of the text as editor of the source materials.
Redaction Criticism
In historical criticism,
_ attempts to tract the developmental stages of the oral tradition from its historical emergence to its literary presentation.
Tradition criticism
In historical criticism,
_ focuses its interpretation of the bible on the text of biblical canon.
Canonical Criticism
There are two parts to a historical criticism: to _ and to _.
- determine the authenticity of the material (provencance of the source).
- weigh the testimony to the truth
_ is where the critic must examine the trustworthiness of the testimonies as well as the probability of the statements to be true.
Internal Criticism
_ determines the authenticity of the source.
External Criticism
In external criticism, the authenticity may be tested in two ways:
_ criticism which is the deciphering and dating of historical manuscripts.
_ criticism which is the critical analysis of historical document to understand how the document came to be the information transmitted and the relationships between the facts purported in the document and the reality.
Paleographical;
Diplomatic
_ determines the historicity of the facts contained in the document. Thus, it is not necessary to prove the authenticity of the material or document.
Internal Criticism
One of the unfulfilled needs of the historian is more of what the French call “_” or the dictionaries of biography giving examples of handwriting.
isographies
_ have been the subject of special study by sigillographers, and experts can detect fake ones.
Seals
_ (idiom, orthography, or punctuation) can be detected by specialists who are familiar with contemporary writing.
Anachronistic styles
_ (too early or too late or too remote) or the dating of a document at a time when the alleged writer could not possibly have been at the place designated (the alibi) uncovers fraud.
Anachronistic references to events
_ states that the historian is many times removed from the events under investigation and historians rely on surviving records.
History as Reconstruciton
_ states that historians have to verify sources, to date them, locate their place of origin and identify their intended functions.
Historical Method
_ is the process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past.
Historical Method
_ is an object from the past or testimony concerning he past on which historians depend in order to create their own depiction of that past.
Historical Sources
_ are tangible remains of the past.
Historical Sources
Examples of written sources are: _ and _.
Published Materials, Manuscripts