form criticism

And, if that's the case, why the long form criticism?

The study of the oral tradition is called form criticism.

Form criticism tries to find the earlier oral traditions on which the texts were based.

In these works he created the new critical methodology of form criticism (Formgeschichte).

Form criticism is concerned with the study of literary form in the Bible.

Later form criticism was introduced to trace the history of material before it was written down.

Form criticism and tradition criticism thus overlap, though the former is more narrow in focus.

He is most noted for founding form criticism.

He was a pioneer in the application of "form criticism" approach to Rabbinic texts.

Also related are form criticism and tradition history which try to reconstruct the oral prehistory behind the identified written sources.

Form criticism later revealed that the narrative comprises fragments put in order by Mark, or by someone before him.

Form criticism seeks to determine a unit's original form and the historical context of the literary tradition.

Over the past few decades, form criticism's emphasis on oral tradition has waned in Old Testament studies.

Form criticism has been most profitably used in the psalms and has revolutionized our understanding of them.

He initiated form criticism later developed by Rudolf Bultmann.

Form criticism is the methodologies by which biblical scholars seek to discover the types ("forms") of literature contained in the Bible.

Form criticism looks for patterns within units of biblical text and attempts to trace their origin based on the patterns.

Redaction criticism may be viewed as the child of text criticism and form criticism.

Form criticism is thus an attempt to reconstruct the theological opinions of the primitive church and pre-talmudic Judaism.

Form criticism: an analysis of literary documents, particularly the Bible, to discover earlier oral traditions (stories, legends, myths, etc.) upon which they were based.

Form criticism allowed scholars to go behind these larger literary sources by identifying the smaller and older sources used by their authors.

Hermann Gunkel originally developed form criticism to analyze the Hebrew Bible.

Form criticism was originally developed for Old Testament studies by Hermann Gunkel.

As developed by Rudolf Bultmann and others, form criticism attempts to rediscover the original kernel of meaning.