Questions tagged [form-criticism]
Form criticism is the approach to interpretation by which "meaning" is discerned through clarifying the social conventions governing literary genre to which a given text belongs.
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What tests or methods does Biblical Hermeneutics apply to chapter headings?
This isn't a question about why are there chapter headings, should there be chapter headings, what is the history of chapter headings, or "are chapter headings a sort of iota?"
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Our Father in Heaven prayer -- prose or verse?
I happened to read a write-up presented by Rev. Jack Kilmon, Bible scholar and researcher in his website "Scriptorium". Kilmon has attempted a retro-translation of the 'Our Father in Heaven' prayer ...
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How can one detect when there is a "community" behind a text?
With an epistle like Galatians, it is rather transparent that there is some sort of community to whom the letter is written. But scholars (e.g. Raymond Brown) have also been known to talk about a "...
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To what degree does the Didache depend on Matthew or vise versa?
Reading the Didache for the first time, I was struck by many similarities between it and Matthew (particularly the Sermon on the Mount section). For instance, this is from the first chapter of the ...
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What happened to the 500 witnesses in 1 Corinthians 15?
This week I taught Sunday School from this text:
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was ...
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What is the Sitz im Leben approach in Form Criticism?
What is the Sitz im Leben approach to Biblical hermeneutics? How is it used in form-critical exegesis?
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