Raamattukritiikki
Raamattukritiikki, or biblical criticism, is a scholarly approach to studying the Bible. It employs historical, literary, and linguistic methods to understand the origins, composition, and meaning of biblical texts. This field of study is not about questioning the faith of believers but rather about applying academic rigor to understand how the Bible came to be and what its various texts might have meant to their original audiences.
There are several branches within biblical criticism. Source criticism, for example, seeks to identify the different
Historical criticism, a broader category, places biblical texts within their historical and cultural settings, comparing them
Raamattukritiikki has been instrumental in providing insights into the diversity of authorship, the historical development of