History of higher criticism. The phrase "the higher criticism" became popular in Europe from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century, to describe the work of such scholars as Jean Astruc (mid-18th cent.), Johann Salomo Semler (1725-91), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752-1827), Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), and Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918). In academic circles …

Criticism of Wikipedia has been directed at its content, its procedures, the character and practices of the Wikipedia community, and its nature as an open source encyclopedia that anyone can edit.. Quotes []. But if a reader had started on the page for either of Breivik’s guns, the Ruger or the Glock, they would not know this.

23/02/2009 · Criticism rolls off Wikipedia like water off a duck’s back. Except when it doesn’t. I haven’t quite figured out what characterizes effective constructive criticism of Wikipedia, but I have learned that high-level Wikipedians pay considerably more attention to satires and parodies than they do to serious academic essays.

Historical criticism or higher criticism is a branch of literary analysis that investigates the origins of a text. "Higher" criticism is used in contrast with Lower criticism (or textual criticism), whose goal is to determine the original form of a text from among the variants.. Higher criticism, whether biblical, classical, Byzantine or medieval, focuses on the sources of a document to ...

Teaching Bible based on Higher Criticism "Historical Criticism and the Evangelical" by Grant Osborne "From the Divine Oracle to Higher Criticism" from The Warfare of Science With Theology by Andrew White, 1896; Catholic Encyclopedia article (1908) "Biblical Criticism (Higher)" Dictionary of the history of Ideas: Modernism in the Christian Church