textual criticism
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Try to imagine this today: For almost a year, textual criticism was happening, and red-hot copies of The New York Review of Books flew off the newsstands.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2018
Which is a lot to ask of a book and more to ask of a play, as textual criticism tends to offer limited catharsis and thrills.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2017
They concede the need for textual criticism, admit that many passages must be interpreted symbolically rather than literally.
From Time Magazine Archive
From both seminaries and secular institutions, scholars are drawing on science, archaeology and modern textual criticism to write a chapter of Christianity that makes little mention of miracles except to reject them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ordinarily, however, only two kinds are distinguished: the lower, or textual criticism, and the higher criticism.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl
