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noun
the study of the Bible having as its object the establishment of such facts as authorship and date of composition, as well as determination of a basis for exegesis.
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Origin of higher criticism First recorded in 1830–40
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Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
Higher courts, including the Supreme Court had refused to intercede, and the stay was to expire tonight.
But with the pipeline, transportation costs drop and production would be higher.
I claim that it contains many errors of fact, and the Higher Criticism supports the claim; as we shall see.
Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
If now we turn to the higher aspects of form, such as symmetry and proportion, we encounter a difficulty.
Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
I then found myself hoisted up by degrees, at least three feet higher than I was before.
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British Dictionary definitions for higher criticism
noun
the use of scientific techniques of literary criticism to establish the sources of the books of the Bible Compare lower criticism Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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