Am I on the right track???

Question

Explain the tasks of literary, redaction, and source criticism.

This is what I have so far I don't know if I'm way off base or what.......


When analyzing the books of the bible it is customary to have to looks at how it is written, who it is written by and where they received their information. That is where literary, redaction and source criticism comes in. in order to find out this information one must be able to verify the source, time, and text to determine its authenticity.

Answer 1

I think it's a safe assumption that old men who finally sit down to write details about precise events, conversations and facts of fifty or sixty years previous would not produce very accurate accounts of what really happened... especially when they were pressured by Paul to deify the person they were writing about so that the ambitious Paul could present a "messiah" to the world. I can't believe anyone would accept as absolutely true and accurate every single word their own grandfathers or great grandfathers remembered about situations and conversations they experienced from the 1930s - 1940s.

Answer 2

The Bible is really just a fake story, perhaps a bit like the Loch Ness monster tales.

When we pass on information to another (example: story, joke, description of something etc) by the time these details are passed on by word of mouth, interpreted by others, and then written down, the final details are typically quite different than the original information.

Since the Bible is just a man-made story passed down over many years in various forms, the chance of it being accurate in any shape or form is remote.

There are people who swear blind that the Loch Ness monster exists regardless of all the evidence to the contrary, but a fence post bobbing up and down in the Loch does the trick. Similarly there are people who swear blind that God exists and the Bible is fact, yet there isn’t one blind bit of evidence to support such theories.

Biblical tales are really no different than Loch Ness monster tales, just the era is different. There is not one single matter discussed in the Bible out of the many thousands of issues raised that has been proven true, yet many matters have been proven false.

You don’t really need to be a rocket scientist to deduce with practically 100% certainty that God and the Bible are fake.

Answer 3

Here is a question maybe you could answer for me. If the bible is THE truth, and THE way - then why must it be translated at all? If some supreme being wrote this - wouldn't he have wrote it in a language we could all understand? And why would it be so confusing. Here is one example:

When you buy a male Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years, but in the seventh he shall go out a free person, without debt. If he comes in single, he shall go out single; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s and he shall go out alone. But if the slave declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out a free person’, then his master shall bring him before God. He shall be brought to the door or the doorpost; and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him for life. [Exodus, Chapter 21]

That doesn't seem too "Christian" if you ask me.

Answer 4

the Bible was written by prophets, apostles and some disciples, but the words did not come from them God told them what to write and they wrote it.

Answer 5

There is no way of doing this, so the source loses validity.

Answer 6

I tend to go by the Spirit.

Answer 7

don't forget...King James added & subtracted parts of the transulation according to his egotistical opinion !