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  1. Study of the content and origin of the Bible.
  2. Lower or textual criticism is directed
  3. towards the recovery of the original text;
  4. higher or documentary criticism is concerned
  5. with questions of authorship, date, and
  6. literary sources; historical criticism seeks
  7. to ascertain the actual historical content of
  8. the Bible, aided by archaeological 
  9. discoveries and the ancient history of
  10. neighbouring peoples.
  11.