Textual criticism

revealed belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.” Science, nature, and creation can assist in bringing the things that God revealed to light. La Sor, Hubbard, and Bush cite, “The science (and art) of textual criticism is the task of spotting the errors and restoring the Hebrew and Aramaic texts to a form as close to the original as possible. Scholars carefully compare the available manuscripts to examine and evaluate the variant readings.” The science…

Introduction In the beginning he mentions that the subject of this book has been in his mind for a long time. This book is meant to explain the ancient manuscripts of the New Testament and the differences as well as the changes it went through. He then discusses his childhood and his experiences with religion. Ehrman discusses how the Bible was not focused on as much as the church was in his childhood. It was seen as an important religious book. As a “born again Christian,” he felt that those…

This portfolio is a representation of the observations completed for the class M464 – Methods of Teaching Reading taught by Dr. Hope Smith Davis. These observations have been conducted and recorded by Joshua Lindsey, a teacher candidate at Indiana University South Bend during the spring semester of 2017. These observations give prospective teachers a chance to be immersed in a content-area classroom and to witness day-to-day operations within the secondary classroom as they occur. While these…

Marvin Trachtenberg, “Suger’s Miracles, Branner’s Bourges: Reflections on “Gothic Architecture” as Medieval Modernism”, Gesta, 39.2 (2000)m 183-205. In his article, Marvin Trachtenberg aims to redefine our understanding of words like “modern” and “historicism” in regards to Gothic architecture. To prove his point, he uses Suger’s St. Denis along with Bourges Cathedral as examples, but he begins with a lengthy investigation into the language we use to describe Gothic architecture, including the…

Martha Grace Weatherill Martha Grace Weatherill Methods of Reading the Bible A Critical Reading of the Story of Ananias and Sapphira Using Historical and Theological Approaches Acts 5:1-11 The story of Ananias and Sapphira and indeed, the book of Acts are of great importance because it informs the reader on the history of the primitive church at Jerusalem. Fee and Stuart point out that the author, Luke, is a Gentile whose narrative could be seen as a source of Hellenistic historiography,…

believe himself a poet so much as a Sydney-an commentator, begging for the rise of an American literature and, by extension, an American theory of criticism. Although we have already discussed The Poet as if it were poetry, we will grant Emerson his wish to be a commentator and investigate the poet as an abstract figure. Until this point in the history of criticism, the poet has been described at best as the receiver of a gift from God, the gods, or the muses - a person possessed by a creative…

Emerging in 18th century Britain, philosophical innovation and liberal thought characterised intellectual life. Considering the British collective identity as a gradually changing and evolving concept, Behn’s position appears to recognise the barbarity inherent to this identity and sees the nation as one that favours violence and personal independence over and above genuine tolerance. Behn’s narrative exposes these contradictory forces while complicating the concept of liberty further by…

1. Aristotle believed this was the finest tragedy because the protagonist 's recognition of the truth coincides with the reversal of his fortunes [peripetes]. Where, exactly, does this occur in the play? (From the Temple University Study Guide.) They coincide when the shepherd informs Oedipus that he is Laio 's son. Oedipus acts accordingly. "Ah God!/It was true!/All the prophecies!/--Now,/I, Oedipus,/Oedipus, damned in his birth, in his marriage/O Light, may I look on you for the last time!…

The emphasis in Genealogy on dispersions, accidents, reversals, errors, and false appraisals points out to the fact that all the claims of representing truth or reality are questionable and our accessibility to the past is no more than textual investigation, or discursively constructed. He further suggests that genealogy is neither epistemological nor teleological- it is neither about the search for origins nor for the ends and the movements of history never follow a linear development…

The Age of Enlightenment was a 17th and 18th century intellectual movement that changed peoples’ ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity. This period of great change was heavily influenced by several 17th century philosophers – René Descartes, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith– who stressed the importance of thinking for oneself, disregarding socially accepted ideologies, especially those of the church, and the need for testing…