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lower criticism

noun

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”.

  1. derived from niedere Kritik

Definitions

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

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for lower criticism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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