Higher Criticism Refers to a Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Movement in Which

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Multiple Choice

Higher criticism refers to a nineteenth-century intellectual movement in which scholars

• A)focused exclusively on literary texts while ignoring their historical settings.
• B)studied the Bible not as a divinely inspired book incapable of error but simply as a set of writings susceptible to varied interpretations.
• C)analyzed all writings,secular and sacred,in accordance with Marxist theory.
• D)applied linguistic theory to literature to show that all texts are the same.

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