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I’m trying to mentally form a somewhat comprehensive list of types of criticisms/approaches to Biblical studies and what the lay of the land looks like as of 2023–as well as a rough timeline for when each type of criticism made its appearance. Is there anything that seems obviously missing/incorrect in the following list?
- Textual criticism [a.k.a. "Lower" criticism] (1500s-1600s)
- Source criticism (late 1700s-1800s)
- Form criticism (early 1900s)
- Tradition-historical criticism (mid-1900s)
- Redaction criticism (mid-1900s)
- Canonical criticism (1970s-1980s)
- Rhetorical criticism (1980s-1990s)
- Structural criticism (1990s)
- Narrative criticism (1990s)
- Linguistic approach (1990s-2000s)
- Social-scientific approach (2000s)
Also, is it a correct way to understand the historical-critical method and the historical-contextual method as being the "umbrella disciplines" that would encompass all the various types and criticisms mentioned above?
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