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'''Kritik teks''' adalah salah satu metode [[Hermeneutika Alkitab|penafsiran]] [[Alkitab]] yang mempelajari [[teks]] yang ada secara terperinci untuk memahami makna yang terkandung di dalamnya.
 
Ketika seseorang mencoba mempelajari suatu teks Alkitab dari beberapa terjemahan yang berbeda, tidak jarang ia menemukan bagian yang berbeda antara dua terjemahan. Hal ini dapat terjadi karena beberapa macam hal, antara lain:<ref name="Biblical Exegesis">{{en}} John H. Hayes dan Carl R. Holladay. (tahun tidak diketahui). ''Biblical Exegesis : A Beginner's handbook (revised edition)''. London : Westminster John Knox Press.''</ref>
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Kritik teks sudah dimulai dari zaman kuno tetapi metode kritik teks modern untuk [[Alkitab]] [[Kristen]] yaitu [[Perjanjian Lama]] dan [[Perjanjian Baru]] berawal dari rasionalisme abad ke-17 dan ke-18 dan dikembangkan dalam konteks pendekatanan ilmiah kepada humanitas (terutama sejarah) yang tumbuh pada abad ke-19.<!-- Studies of the Old and New Testaments were often independent of each other, largely due to the difficulty of any single scholar having a sufficient grasp of the many languages required or of the cultural background for the different periods in which texts had their origins.
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== Alkitab Ibrani/Perjanjian Lama ==
[[FileBerkas:Title page of the" "Histoire critique du vieux testament" by Richard Simon.jpg|thumbjmpl|uprightlurus|Halaman judul "Critical History" tulisan [[:en:Richard Simon (priest)|Richard Simon]] (1685), suatu karya awal kritik Alkitab]]
Kritisisme Alkitab modern dimulai pada abad ke-17 oleh para filsuf dan teolog —[[Thomas Hobbes]], [[:en:Benedict Spinoza|Benedict Spinoza]], [[:en:Richard Simon (priest)|Richard Simon]] dan lain-lain — yang mempertanyakan asal usul teks [[Alkitab]], terutama [[Pentateukh]] (lima kitab pertama [[Perjanjian Lama]], yakni [[Kitab Kejadian|Kejadian]], [[Kitab Keluaran|Keluaran]], [[Kitab Imamat|Imamat]], [[Kitab Bilangan|Bilangan]], dan [[Kitab Ulangan|Ulangan]]). Secara spesifik, dipertanyakan siapa penulis kitab-kitab ini; menurut tradisi pengarangnya adalah [[Musa]], tetapi para kritikus ini melihat ada kontradiksi dan inkonsistensi dalam teks yang membuat mereka menentang [[:en:Mosaic authorship|kepengarangan Musa]]. Pada abad ke-18 [[Jean Astruc]] (1684–1766), seorang dokter PerancisPrancis, berupaya membantah para kritikus itu. Menggunakan metode [[kritik teks]] yang sudah dipakai untuk meneliti teks-teks Yunani dan Romawi, ia menemukan apa yang diyakininya sebagai sejumlah dokumen terpisah dalam [[Kitab Kejadian]], berasal dari gulungan-gulungan asli tulisan Musa, yang sebagaimana empat penulis menghasilkan empat kitab Injil, merupakan catatan-catatan yang saling melengkapi. Generasi-generasi berikutnya, menurut Astruc, menggabungkan dokumen-dokumen asli ini untuk menghasilkan kitab Kejadian yang ada sekarang, di mana secara sekilas menunjukkan inkonsistensi dan kontradiksi sebagaimana diamati oleh Hobbes dan Spinoza.
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Astruc's methods were adopted by German scholars such as [[Johann Gottfried Eichhorn]] (1752–1827) and [[Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette]] (1780–1849) in a movement which became known as the [[higher criticism]] (to distinguish it from the far longer-established close examination and comparison of individual manuscripts, called the [[lower criticism]]); this school reached its apogee with the influential synthesis of [[Julius Wellhausen]] (1844–1918) in the 1870s, at which point it seemed to many that the Bible had at last been fully explained as a human document.
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The implications of "higher criticism" were not welcomed by many religious scholars, not least the Catholic Church. [[Pope Leo XIII]] (1810–1903) condemned secular biblical scholarship in his encyclical ''[[Providentissimus Deus]]'';<ref>Fogarty, page 40.</ref> but in 1943 [[Pope Pius XII]] gave license to the new scholarship in his encyclical ''[[Divino afflante Spiritu]]'': "textual criticism ... [is] quite rightly employed in the case of the Sacred Books...Let the interpreter then, with all care and without neglecting any light derived from recent research, endeavor to determine the peculiar character and circumstances of the sacred writer, the age in which he lived, the sources written or oral to which he had recourse and the forms of expression he employed".<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_30091943_divino-afflante-spiritu_en.html Encyclical ''Divino afflante Spiritu''], 1943.</ref> Today the modern [[Catechism of the Catholic Church|Catechism]] states: "In order to discover the sacred authors' intention, the reader must take into account the conditions of their time and culture, the literary genres in use at that time, and the modes of feeling, speaking and narrating then current. For the fact is that truth is differently presented and expressed in the various types of historical writing, in prophetical and poetical texts, and in other forms of literary expression".<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PQ.HTM Catechism of the Catholic Church, Article III, section 110] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816202810/http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PQ.HTM |date=August 16, 2014 }}</ref>
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[[ImageBerkas:Targum.jpg|rightka|thumbjmpl|Naskah Alkitab Ibrani dengan [[Targum]] dari abad ke-11]]
[[ImageBerkas:Aleppo Codex (Deut).jpg|rightka|thumbjmpl|Satu halaman memuat [[Kitab Ulangan]] dari [[Aleppo Codex]].]]
 
Kritisisme tekstual Alkitab Ibrani membandingkan versi [[naskah Alkitab]] dari berbagai sumber (tarikh berdasarkan naskah tertua yang terlestarikan dari setiap keluarga/famili tekstual):
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Sebagaimana dalam naskah-naskah [[Perjanjian Baru]], munculnya perubahan, korupsi dan penghapusan, terutama dalam teks-teks Masoret, disebabkan oleh para juru tulis (''soferim''; ''scribes'') kuno yang tidak menangani kesalahan penyalinan secermat di waktu-waktu kemudian.<ref>Tov 2001, p. 9</ref>
 
Ada tiga edisi baru terpisah untuk Alkitab Ibrani yang sekarang dalam pengembangan: ''[[Biblia Hebraica Quinta]]'', ''[[:en:Hebrew University Bible Project|Hebrew University Bible]]'', dan ''[[:en:Oxford Hebrew Bible|Oxford Hebrew Bible]]''. ''Biblia Hebraica Quinta'' adalah edisi [[:En:diplomatics|diplomatik]] berdasarkan [[Leningrad Codex]]. ''Hebrew University Bible'' juga diplomatik, tetapi berdasarkan [[Aleppo Codex]]. ''Oxford Hebrew Bible'' adalah edisi eklektis.<ref>Hendel, R., "The Oxford Hebrew Bible: Prologue to a New Critical Edition", ''Vetus Testamentum, vol. 58'', no. 3 (2008). pp.&nbsp;325–326</ref>
 
==== Alkitab Ibrani sebagai Perjanjian Lama ====
 
Dalam melihat [[Alkitab Ibrani]] sebagai [[Perjanjian Lama]], hampir semua varian tekstual tidak bernilai penting dan tidak mempengaruhi doktrin kepercayaan. Professor [[:en:Douglas Stuart (biblical scholar)|Douglas Stuart]] menyatakan: "Secara jujur dapat dikatakan bahwa ayat-ayat, pasal-pasal, dan kitab-kitab dalam Alkitab akan terbaca umumnya sama, dan memberikan kesan yang sama kepada para pembaca, meskipun orang memasukkan semua bacaan ''alternatif'' yang ada ke dalam teks yang menjadi dasar terjemahan [bahasa Inggris] saat ini."<ref>{{cite book|last=Kaiser|first=Walter|title=The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable & Relevant?|year=2001|publisher=InterVarsity Press|page=48|url=https://books.google.com/?id=FbKhwkrCoD8C&pg=PA48&lpg=PA48#v=onepage&q&f=false|isbn=9780830819751}}</ref>
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| [[Teks Alexandria]]<br />(juga disebut tradisi "''Neutral Text''" ("Teks Netral"); atau "''Minority Text''"/"Teks Minoritas")||abad ke-2 sampai ke–4 M|| Keluarga tekstual ini meliputi sejumlah naskah paling tua, termasuk [[Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209|Codex Vaticanus]] dan [[Codex Sinaiticus]]. Naskah-naskahnya umumnya hanya ditemukan terbatas di daerah sekitar [[Mesir]]: [[Aleksandria]] dan [[Gereja Koptik|Gereja Aleksandria]]. Karena iklim yang menguntungkan, naskah-naskah tua masih terlestarikan dalam penyimpanan, meskipun tidak diteruskan penyalinannya, dan sekarang mendasari banyak terjemahan modern Perjanjian Baru sejak tahun 1900-an.||[[:en:New International Version|NIV]], [[New American Bible|NAB]], [[New American Bible Revised Edition|NABRE]], [[:En:Douay|Douay]], [[Jerusalem Bible|JB]] and [[New Jerusalem Bible|NJB]] (meskipun juga tergantung pada jenis teks Bizantin), [[:en:Today's New International Version|TNIV]], [[:en:New American Standard Bible|NASB]], [[:en:Revised Standard Version|RSV]], [[:en:English Standard Version|ESV]], [[:en:Emphasized Bible|EBR]], [[:En:New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures|NWT]], [[:en:The Living Bible|LB]], [[American Standard Version|ASV]], [[:En:New Century Version|NC]], [[:En:Good News Bible|GNB]], [[:En:Christian Standard Bible|CSB]]
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|[[Teks Western]]<br>(juga disebut "jenis [[teks Kaisarea]]")||abad ke-3 sampai ke-9 M ||Dianggap suatu tradisi paling tua, tersebar dalam geografi luas dari Afrika Utara ke Italia dan dari [[Gaul]] (PerancisPrancis) ke [[Siria]]. Ditemukan dalam naskah-naskah bahasa Yunani dan terjemahan Latin yang digunakan oleh [[Gereja Barat]]. Sejumlah sarjana Perjanjian Baru membedakan teks Western dan teks Kaisarea.||[[Vetus Latina]]
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| [[Teks Bizantin]]<br>(juga disebut jenis "teks [[bahasa Yunani Koine|Koinē]]"<br />atau terkenal sebagai "''Majority Text''"/"Teks Mayoritas")||abad ke-5 sampai ke-16 M|| Kelompok ini meliputi sekitar 95% seluruh naskah yang ada, mayoritas dari abad-abad kemudian. Menjadi dominan di [[Konstantinopel]] sejak abad ke-5 dan seterusnya, serta digunakan di seluruh [[Gereja Ortodoks Timur]] dalam [[Kekaisaran Bizantium]]. Mendasari [[Textus Receptus]] yang digunakan dalam kebanyakan terjemahan Perjanjian Baru dalam era-[[Reformasi Protestan|Reformasi]].|| [[King James Version|KJV]], [[New King James Version|NKJV]], [[Alkitab Tyndale|Tyndale]], [[Alkitab Coverdale|Coverdale]], [[Alkitab Jenewa|Geneva (Jenewa)]], [[:en:Bishops' Bible|Bishops' Bible]], [[:en:Orthodox Study Bible|OSB]]
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== Metode dan perspektif ==
[[FileBerkas:Two Source Hypothesis.svg|jmpl|ka|200px|[[:en:Source criticism|Kritisisme sumber (''source criticism'')]]: diagram [[:en:two-source hypothesis|hipotesis dua sumber]], salah satu penjelasan hubungan Injil Matius ("Matthew", Markus ("Mark") dan Lukas ("Luke")]]
Metode dan perspektif kritis jumlahnya banyak, dan tinjauan berikut tidak dapat dianggap komprehensif.
 
=== Kritisisme tekstual ===
[[Kritik teks|Kritisisme tekstual]] ("Kritik teks", ''Textual criticism''; kadang-kadang dirujuk sebagai "''lower criticism''"; "kritisisme tingkat rendah") merujuk kepada penelitian teks itu sendiri untuk mengidentifikasi asal usul atau melacak sejarahnya.<!-- It takes as its basis the fact that errors inevitably crept into texts as generations of scribes reproduced each other's manuscripts. For example, [[Josephus]] employed scribes to copy his [[Antiquities of the Jews]]. As the scribes copied the Antiquities, they made mistakes. The copies of these copies also had the mistakes. The errors tend to form "families" of manuscripts: scribe ''A'' will introduce mistakes which are not in the manuscript of scribe ''B'', and over time the "families" of texts descended from ''A'' and ''B'' will diverge further and further as more mistakes are introduced by later scribes, but will always be identifiable as descended from one or the other. Textual criticism studies the differences between these families to piece together a good idea of what the original looked like. The more surviving copies, the more accurately can they deduce information about the original text and about "family histories".
 
Textual criticism uses a number of specialized methodologies, including [[eclecticism]], [[stemmatics]], copy-text editing and [[cladistics]]. A number of principles have also been introduced for use in deciding between variant manuscripts, such as ''[[Lectio difficilior potior]]'': "The harder of two readings is to be preferred".<ref>Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745–1812) published several editions of the New Testament. In his 1796 edition, he established fifteen critical rules, including a variant of Bengel's rule, ''Lectio difficilior potior'', "the hardest reading is best." Another was ''[[Lectio brevior|Lectio brevior praeferenda]]'', "the shorter reading is best," based on the idea that scribes were more likely to add than to delete. {{cite web | url=http://www.bible-researcher.com/rules.html#Griesbach |title=Critical Rules of Johann Albrecht Bengel|publisher=Bible-researcher.com|accessdate=2010-03-16| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100213010108/http://www.bible-researcher.com/rules.html| archivedate= 13 February 2010 | deadurl= no}}</ref> Nevertheless, there remains a strong element of subjectivity, areas where the scholar must decide his reading on the basis of taste or common-sense: Amos 6.12, for example, reads: "Does one plough with oxen?" The obvious answer is "yes", but the context of the passage seems to demand a "no"; the usual reading therefore is to amend this to, "Does one plough ''the sea'' with oxen?" The amendment has a basis in the text, which is believed to be corrupted, but is nevertheless a matter of judgement.<ref>[[David J. A. Clines]], "[http://www.shef.ac.uk/bibs/DJACcurrres/Postmodern1/Methods.html Methods in Old Testament Study]", section ''Textual Criticism'', in ''On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 1'' (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: [[Sheffield Academic Press]], 1998), pp. 23–45.</ref>
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=== Kritisisme sumber ===
[[:en:Source criticism (biblical studies)|Kritik sumber (''Source criticism'')]] adalah upaya pencarian sumber-sumber asli yang mendasari suatu teks, dalam hal ini [[Alkitab]].<!-- Metode ini dapat ditelusuri kepada pendeta PerancisPrancis abad ke-17, [[:en:Richard Simon (priest)|Richard Simon]], dan d its most influential product is [[Julius Wellhausen]]'s ''[[Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels]]'' (1878), whose "insight and clarity of expression have left their mark indelibly on modern biblical studies".<ref>[[Antony F. Campbell]], SJ, "[http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/content/BPL_Images/Content_store/Sample_chapter/9780631210719/perdue.pdf Preparatory Issues in Approaching Biblical Texts]," in ''The Hebrew Bible in Modern Study'', p.6. Campbell renames source criticism as "origin criticism".</ref> An example of source criticism is the study of the [[Synoptic problem]]. Critics noticed that the three [[Synoptic Gospels]], [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]], [[Gospel of Mark|Mark]] and [[Gospel of Luke|Luke]], were very similar, indeed, at times identical. The dominant theory to account for the duplication is called the [[two-source hypothesis]]. This suggests that Mark was the first gospel to be written, and that it was probably based on a combination of early oral and written material. Matthew and Luke were written at a later time, and relied primarily on two different sources: Mark and a written collection of Jesus's sayings, which has been given the name [[Q document|Q]] by scholars. This latter document has now been lost, but at least some of its material can be deduced indirectly, namely through the material that is common in Matthew and Luke but absent in Mark. In addition to Mark and Q, the writers of Matthew and Luke made some use of additional sources, which would account for the material that is unique to each of them.
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=== Kritisisme bentuk dan sejarah tradisi ===
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=== Kritisisme redaksi ===
[[:en:Redaction criticism|Kritisisme redaksi]] mempelajari "pengkoleksian, pengaturan, penyuntingan, dan modifikasi sumber-sumber", dan sering digunakan untuk merekonstruksi komunitas dan tujuan para penulis teks.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www-relg-studies.scu.edu/facstaff/murphy/courses/exegesis/redaction.htm |title=Religious Studies Department, Santa Clara University.] |access-date=2018-05-23 |archive-date=2006-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060228065539/http://www-relg-studies.scu.edu/facstaff/murphy/courses/exegesis/redaction.htm |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Didasarkan pada perbandingan perbedaan antara naskah-naskah dan nilai penting teologisnya.<ref>[http://www.abu.nb.ca/courses/NewTestament/Gospels/REDACCR.htm Redaction Criticism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080105121203/http://www.abu.nb.ca/courses/NewTestament/Gospels/REDACCR.htm |date=2008-01-05 }}.</ref>
 
=== Kritisisme kanonik ===
[[:en:canonical criticism|Kritisisme kanonik]] adalah "suatu penelitian bentuk akhir teks sebagai suatu totalitas, serta proses yang mengarahkannya".<ref>[http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/oct1985/v42-3-article3.htm Norman K. Gottwald, "Social Matrix and Canonical Shape", ''Theology Today'', October 1985.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531012200/http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/oct1985/v42-3-article3.htm |date=2010-05-31 }}. Kutipan: "an examination of the final form of the text as a totality, as well as the process leading to it"</ref> Metode ini terutama dikaitkan dengan [[:en:Brevard S. Childs|Brevard S. Childs]], yang menulis secara prolifik mengenai subjek ini.<!-- Where previous criticism asked questions about the origins, structure and history of the text, canonical criticism addresses questions of meaning, both for the community (and communities—subsequent communities are regarded as being as important as the original community for which it was produced) which used it, and in the context of the wider canon of which it forms a part.<ref name="harpers"/>
 
===Kritisisme retorik===
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* [[William F. Albright|William Albright]] (1891–1971): profesor pada [[Johns Hopkins University]] dan pendiri "[[:en:biblical archaeology|biblical archaeology (arkeologi Alkitab)]]" yang mendukung otentisitas naskah-naskah kuno Alkitab, terutama [[Perjanjian Lama]].
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* [[Jean Astruc]] (1684–1776): kritikus Alkitab mula-mula asal PerancisPrancis, yang mengadaptasi kritik sumber pada studi kitab Kejadian dan berpendapat bahwa Musa adalah penyusun seluruh Taurat.
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* [[Thomas Jefferson]] (1743–1826): Presiden Amerika Serikat. Pengarang "Jefferson Bible", sebuah rekonstruksi Perjanjian Baru yang menghilangkan rujukan bersifat mujizat.
* [[Baruch Spinoza]] (1632–1677): filsuf Belanda, yang mengumpulkan diskrepansi, kontradiksi dan anakronisme dari Taurat dan berpendapat bahwa Taurat tidak dapat ditulis oleh Musa. Pendapatnya disanggah secara detail oleh [[Jean Astruc]].
* [[Baron d'Holbach]] (1723–1789): pembuat ensiklopedia PerancisPrancis/Jerman, menerbitkan secara anomim di Amsterdam pada tahun 1769 "Ecce Homo: The History of Jesus of Nazareth, a Critical Inquiry", yang menyangsikan Yesus sebagai manusia biasa dalam sejarah. Diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggris oleh George Houston dan dipublikasikan di Edinburgh, 1799, London, 1813, (karena "blasphemy" ini Houston dipenjarakan selama 2 tahun), dan New York, 1827. Pendapatnya ditinggalkan karena temuan-temuan arkeologis modern.
* [[David Friedrich Strauss]] (1808–1874): kritikus Jerman yang berfokus pada penelitian [[Yesus sebagai tokoh dalam sejarah]], terutama dengan bukunya ''Das Leben Jesu''. Pendapatnya sudah ditinggalkan karena temuan-temuan arkeologi modern.
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* [[Joseph Wheless]] (1868–1950): ahli hukum Amerika Serikat yang menentang bahwa Yesus pernah hidup.-->
* [[R. N. Whybray]] (1923–1997): penyanggah asumsi "kritik sumber" yang mendasari [[hipotesis dokumen]].
* [[N. T. Wright]] (1948-): uskup emiritus Anglikan dan profesor "New Testament and Early Christianity" pada [[:en:University of St. Andrews|University of St. Andrews]], Wright dikenal karena [[:en:New Perspective on Paul|New Perspective on Paul]] dan karyanya berupa serial ''Christian Origins and the Question of God''.<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/staff/ntw2/] |title=Salinan arsip |access-date=2015-09-15 |archive-date=2014-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328185956/https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/staff/ntw2/ |dead-url=yes }}</ref><ref>[http://ntwrightpage.com/]</ref>
 
== Lihat pula ==
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* Barenboim Peter, ''Biblical Roots of Separation of Powers'', Moscow : Letny Sad, 2005, ISBN 5-94381-123-0, http://lccn.loc.gov/2006400578
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== Pranala luar ==
* [http://www.shef.ac.uk/bibs/DJACcurrres/Postmodern1/Possibilities.html David J. A. Clines, "Possibilities and Priorities of Biblical Interpretation in an International Perspective", in ''On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998'', Volume 1 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: [[Sheffield Academic Press]], 1998), pp.&nbsp;46–68] See Section 6, Future Trends in Biblical Interpretation, overview of some current trends in biblical criticism.
* [http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/5159_5434.pdf Philip Davies, review of John J. Collins, "The Bible after Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age", 2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612134709/http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/5159_5434.pdf |date=2011-06-12 }} Reviews a survey of postmodernist biblical criticism.
* [http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/txtcriticism.htm Allen P. Ross (Beeson Divinity School, Samford University), "The Study of Textual Criticism"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725165002/http://www.christianleadershipcenter.org/txtcriticism.htm |date=2011-07-25 }} Guide to the methodology of textual criticism.
* [http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/3815_3767.pdf Yair Hoffman, review of Marvin A. Sweeney and Ehud Ben Zvi (eds.), ''The Changing Face of Form-Criticism for the Twenty-First Century'', 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20080407061814/http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/3815_3767.pdf |date=2008-04-07 }} Discusses contemporary form criticism.
* [httphttps://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/query?url=web/20091020075852/http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/5993/crit.html&date=2009-10-25+06:08:49 Exploring Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations on the Internet] Introduction to biblical criticism
* [http://biblicalauthorship.blogspot.com/2011/07/library.html Library of latest modern books of biblical studies and biblical criticism]