For your information, if we survey into the Christian world or "market", there are many forms of criticism made made by scholars, theologians and so on. Below are the types of criticism:
A. Textual Criticism - is the attempt to determine the original text of the biblical books. This is done by comparing the various extant manuscripts. Also in the past has been referred to as the lower criticism.
B. Literary-Source Criticism - is the effort to determine the various literary sources upon which books of the Bible are based or from which they derive.
C. Form Criticism - is the endeavor to get behind the written sources of the Bible to the period of the oral tradition, and to isolate the oral forms that went into written sources. Insofar as this attempts to trace the history of the tradition, it is known as tradition criticism.
E. Redaction Criticism - is a study of the activity of the biblical authors in shaping, modifying or even creating material for the final product which they wrote.
F. Historical Criticism - in a sense employs all of the above and, in addition, draws upon the data of archeology and of secular historical sources. It has as its aim the determination of the authorship and date of the biblical books, and the establishment and interpretation of what actually occurred historically.
We could create a new criticism in a scholarly manner but the Question is, is there a guideline that I think one could evaluate such critical methods?
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