The Bible - Netflix

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The Bible comes to life in HISTORY's epic new series. From Genesis to Revelation, these unforgettable stories unfold through live action and cutting-edge computer-generated imagery, offering new insight into famous scenes and iconic characters. Created by producer Mark Burnett and featuring an international cast that includes Roma Downey, this 10-hour docudrama explores the sacred text's most significant episodes, including Noah's journey in the ark, the Exodus and the life of Jesus.

The Bible - Netflix

Type: Scripted

Languages: English

Status: Ended

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2013-03-03

The Bible - Biblical criticism - Netflix

Biblical criticism is a philosophical and methodological approach to studying the Bible, using neutral non-sectarian judgment, that grew out of the scientific thinking of the Age of Reason (1700–1789). A wealth of philological, historical, theological and philosophical questions about the Bible arose after the scientific revolution of the 17th century which had produced a revolution in thought as well as science. Leading thinkers were committed to scientific methodology, the importance of history, and skepticism toward tradition. Biblical criticism began in the mid-eighteenth century in Germany among Protestant University students, and continued to develop there throughout the German Enlightenment. Seeking truth through the use of reason, Bible scholars set out to study the Bible from this new scientific perspective. They applied the methods used to study ancient Greek manuscripts to the first five books of the Old Testament. Calling it source criticism, these early source critics asked who had written these documents? When and where had they originated, and what sources were used to write them? This revealed problems concerning Mosaic authorship and the Documentary hypothesis was developed in response. The first questions about the historical Jesus were asked during this initial period, and the historicity and integrity of tradition were questioned. The early nineteenth century saw further development of these new ways of thinking. Three German scholars, Friedrich Wolf (1759–1824; one of the founders of classical philology), Immanuel Bekker (1785–1871), and Karl Lachmann (1793–1851) decided answers could only be found by addressing the text itself. They sought to discover the age and provenance of the Bible's many manuscripts, and attempted to determine what the originals had said using textual criticism. By the late nineteenth century, the second “quest for the historical Jesus” absorbed some leading scholars such as Albert Schweitzer. Karl Ludwig Schmidt (1891–1956)) noticed the gospels were assembled from short, individual units. He believed these units represented the oral forms that had existed before the gospels were put in writing. This led to the development of form criticism, which had a powerful, long-lasting impact. The middle to late twentieth century saw the development of several kinds of literary criticism such as rhetorical criticism, canonical criticism, and narrative criticism, which changed the focus of biblical criticism from history to the text itself. The third “quest for the historical Jesus” also took place in the latter half of the twentieth century. By 1990, biblical criticism had changed irrevocably. For over two hundred years, white male Protestants had dominated the field of biblical criticism. By the late twentieth century, scholars of different ethnicities, women, those of Hebrew descent, and Catholics, became prominent voices writing from new perspectives. Literary criticism had changed understanding of method, goals, and philosophy. Globalization and disciplines like Near Eastern studies were impacting the field as well. Such change created a revolution in biblical criticism that had nearly the same sweeping impact as when it first began. Post-modernism developed its own form of biblical criticism. Other fields of study, such as anthropology and sociology, became the foundation of socio-scientific criticism. Psychology began making contributions to biblical criticism in areas of interpretation, definitions, the field of memory, cognitive science, and more. Feminism developed its own theology of liberation, and post-critical interpretation began to question the role and function of biblical criticism altogether. Professor Emeritus Richard N. Soulen and Theology Professor Richard Kendall Soulen write: “modern biblical criticism has already permanently altered the way people understand the Bible. ... [Biblical criticism] continues to set an agenda for biblical interpretation that remains potent at the beginning of the new millennium: to let the text speak on its own terms.”

The Bible - Literary criticism - Netflix

The development of literary criticism shifted the attention from history and pre-compositional matters to the text itself. Professor and New Testament scholar Paul R. House says linguistics, new views of historiography, the decline of older methods of criticism, and literary scholars such as Northrop Frye (1967) and Robert Alter (1975, 1976) contributed to the development of literary biblical criticism. By 1974, the two methodologies of literary criticism were rhetorical-analysis and structuralism. Rhetorical analysis divides a passage into units, observes how a single unit shifts or breaks, taking special note of poetic devices, meter, parallelism, word play and so on. It then continues by charting the writer's thought progression from one unit to the next, and finally, assembling the data to explain the author's intention's behind the piece. Structuralism looks at the language to discern “layers of meaning” with the goal of uncovering a work's “deep structures”: the premises and purposes of the author. The 1980s saw the rise of formalism, which focuses on plot, structure, character and themes, and reader-response criticism, which focuses on the reader rather than the author. Reader-response criticism was put forward by Old Testament scholar David M. Gunn in 1987. Literary criticism has been accused of using its methodology to make claims that are beyond its scope, and for being overly politically oriented.

The Bible - Netflix

The Bible - Biblical criticism - Netflix

The Bible - Literary criticism - Netflix

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