Form criticism began as an attempt to trace the history of the biblical material before it was written down, and may thus be seen as starting when textual criticism ends.

Form criticism looks for patterns within units of biblical text and attempts to trace their origin based on the patterns.

Form criticism breaks the Bible down into sections ( pericopes, stories ) which are analyzed and categorized by genres ( prose or verse, letters, laws, court archives, war hymns, poems of lament, etc .).

Form criticism is a method of biblical criticism that classifies units of scripture by literary pattern and that attempts to trace each type to its period of oral transmission.

Form criticism seeks to determine a unit's original form and the historical context of the literary tradition.

Form criticism is thus an attempt to reconstruct the theological opinions of the primitive church and pre-talmudic Judaism.

Form criticism begins by identifying a text's genre or conventional literary form, such as parables, proverbs, epistles, or love poems.

Form criticism was originally developed for Old Testament studies by Hermann Gunkel.

* Form criticism, Encyclopædia Britannica Online

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* Form criticism: an analysis of literary documents, particularly the Bible, to discover earlier oral traditions ( stories, legends, myths, etc.

He displayed his acid wit in two books: The Devil's Bedside Book in 1980, a collection of cynical dictionary definitions in the style of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, and The Lowest Form of Wit in 1981, a collection of biting bon mots, stinging retorts, and insults divided into six main sections, illustrated with cartoons ( by Honeysett ) and including a definitive guide and a history of sarcasm.

He was the second Invitational entrant to pass 1, 000 appearances, and is also presently the second-most prolific contributor to the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form ( OEDILF ).

* Family Word Finder: A New Thesaurus of Synonyms and Antonyms in Dictionary Form ( 1975 )

* Tucker, Gene M ." Form Criticism, OT ," pp. 342 – 345 in Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Supplementary Volume.

The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form ( The OEDILF ) is an open collaborative project to compile an English dictionary whose entries all take the form of limericks.

The project was originally called the " Oxford English Dictionary in Limerick Form ", but the OED ’ s legal department advised against it.

* The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If you were required to file a declaration of estimated tax for the calendar year 1961, it is not necessary to pay the fourth installment otherwise due on January 15, 1962, if you file your income tax return Form 1040, and pay your tax in full for the calendar year 1961 by January 31, 1962.

The filing of an original or amended declaration, otherwise due on January 15, 1962, is also waived, if you file your Form 1040 for 1961 and pay the full tax by January 31, 1962.

Farmers, for these purposes, have until February 15, 1962, to file Form 1040 and pay the tax in full for the calendar year 1961.

In such a case, Form 1310 should be completed and attached to the return.

You may apply for such an extension by filing Form 2688, Application For Extension Of Time To File, with the District Director of Internal Revenue for your district, or you may make your application in a letter.

If your computation on Form 1040 or Form 1040A shows you owe additional tax, it should be remitted with your return unless you owe less than $1, in which case it is forgiven.

If you file Form 1040A and the District Director computes your tax, you will be sent a bill if additional tax is due.

If you file Form 1040A and the District Director computes your tax, any refund to which you are entitled will be mailed to you.

If you file a Form 1040, you should indicate in the place provided that there is an overpayment of tax and the amount you want refunded and the amount you want credited against your estimated tax.

It is the amount you enter on line 9, page 1 of Form 1040.

They may be claimed only by itemizing them on page 2 of Form 1040.

Generally, the refund may be obtained by filing Form 1040A accompanied by the withholding statement ( Form W-2 ).

If he had income other than wages subject to withholding, he may be required to file Form 1040.

The Stanford Achievement Test, Form J, was administered by classroom teachers, consisting of a battery of six sub-tests: Paragraph Meaning, Word Meaning, Spelling, Language, Arithmetic Computation, and Arithmetic Reasoning.

Writing in a large volume on the nude in painting and sculptures, titled The Nude: A Study In Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark declares: `` The human body, as a nucleus, is rich in associations.

" The Soul between Body and Immortality: The 13th Century Debate on the Definition of the Human Rational Soul as Form and Substance ", in: Philosophia: E-Journal of Philosophy and Culture, 1 / 2012.

Old Testament Survey: the Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament.

He was the first reporter for the Arkansas supreme court and also wrote a book ( published anonymously ), titled The Arkansas Form Book, which was a guidebook for lawyers.

The academic philosophers had arrived at the Theory of Matter and Form from consideration of certain natural paradoxes subsumed under the general heading of the Unity Problem.

In France, the Basque language school Seaska and the association for a bilingual ( Basque and French ) schooling Ikasbi meet a wide range of Basque language educational needs up to the Sixth Form, while often struggling to surmount financial and administrative constraints.

In parallel to this overall development, the pioneering work of D ' Arcy Thompson in On Growth and Form also helped to add quantitative discipline to biological study.

* Borland Software Corporation, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission Form 8-K filing, July 27, 2009 ( formally notifying SEC of the Change of Control under which Borland became a Micro Focus subsidiary )