A clearer understanding of what may/may not have been the authors intent before a Christian interpretation. I can appreciate the Jewishness of Jesus more clearly through a rabbinic interpretation of the Gospels.
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Modern Biblical Criticism
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A clearer understanding of what may/may not have been the authors intent before a Christian interpretation. I can appreciate the Jewishness of Jesus more clearly through a rabbinic interpretation of the Gospels.
sealchan
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As a Christian I am deeply informed and inspired by archeological and mythological studies of the basis of the Biblical narrative. The fact that so much of the Bible has a demonstrable literary, mythological influence and so little of it has evidence of historicity is deeply informative as to the basis of my faith.
I do not believe that you understand what textual criticism is all about. So, for example, it has zero to do with rabbinic versus Christian interpretations.
Please see here.
Is not the purpose to restore the original form of the text, as centuries of oral and manuscript transmission tend to remove a text from it original shape? To understand the word of God in the Scriptures, it is necessary to 'hear' it echo where it was first uttered.