textual criticism
Americannoun
noun
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the scholarly study of manuscripts, esp of the Bible, in an effort to establish the original text
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literary criticism emphasizing a close analysis of the text
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Origin of textual criticism
First recorded in 1870–75
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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
The first serious blow to this view came from the study of textual criticism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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