English Explanatory Dictionary

lower criticism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of textual criticism (“scientific reconstruction of original historical texts”).

Word forms

lower criticism

Etymology

Calque of German niedere Kritik. In contrast to higher criticism, i.e. historical criticism, the broader interpretation of texts as historical sources, understood as building on the results of “lower criticism”.

Synonyms

textual criticism
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