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What is Exposition?
When exegesis is done, this method elaborates on the texts’ contemporary application or pertinence, without distortion of the original meaning
What is Exegesis
The scholarly approach of explaining the meaning, procedures and principles of a biblical text
Form criticism
The purpose of reconstructing the original oral, or written material where the text emerges from.
Historical criticism
Analytical inquiry into the background history of biblical literature with a perspective of reconstructing the development of each book before it was canonised.
Literary criticism
Study of literary features of the text.
Lower criticism
The classification, collection and evaluation of all manuscripts.
To compare, corroborate and restore the original wording.
Narrative criticism
To conceptualise the formal and material features of narrative stories that contain an underlying narrative within it
New criticism
Focus of this criticism is solely on the text. No history/no author intention
Redaction history
Supplying history of redaction of the text emerging from the time of its original version to time of final text production.
Rhetorical criticism
Focusses on the critical analysis of the literary devices, rhetoric and rhetorical structuring of the a text.
Source criticism
A methodology of studying the text to find the original sources that were used to construct literary texts.
Textual criticism
Attempting to restore the original wording of a text or to compare the diverse readings with the motivation of studying each trend in the development of the so-called original text.
