The first chapter deals with historical criticism in relation to problems of the text’s historical distance and contemporary significance THE HISTORICAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT: A SURVEY OF ORIGINS. By VICTOR PAUL FURNISH, B.D., M.A., Ph.D. PROFESSOR OF NEW TESTAMENT, Historical criticism, literary criticism in the light of historical evidence or based on the context in which a work was written, including facts about the author’s life and the [PDF] Historical Criticism: Its Role in Bibl