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.

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

Before the 4L, the control panel typically had buttons with names like Online, Menu, Shift, Continue, Reset, +, -, and Form Feed.

Most users of dot-matrix printers in the 1980s probably found the Online and Form Feed functions obvious, as most dot-matrix printers had these buttons and they worked similarly.

In 1922, the Encyclopædia Britannica published a brief account of Baker's life that drew sharp criticism.

His support for the ideals of the Tractarians exposed him to considerable criticism, but his " simple manly character and zealous devotion to parochial work gained him the support of widely divergent classes ", according to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Falconet's somewhat prettified and too easy Rococo charm incurred the criticism of the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911:

The Nuttall Encyclopedia, for example, described belles-lettres as the " department of literature which implies literary culture and belongs to the domain of art, whatever the subject may be or the special form ; it includes poetry, the drama, fiction, and criticism ," while the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition describes it as " the more artistic and imaginative forms of literature, as poetry or romance, as opposed to more pedestrian and exact studies.

He was a constant contributor to the leading reviews ; he published an important series of Lectures on Teaching ( 1881 ), Educational Aims and Methods, Notes on American Schools and Colleges ( 1887 ), and an authoritative criticism of Thomas and Matthew Arnold, and their Influence on English Education in 1901 ; and he wrote the article on education in the supplementary volumes ( 10th edition ) of the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 1902 ).

The Britannica has received criticism, especially as editions become outdated.

* The Esperanto article in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica contains criticism of several features by Henry Sweet.

Again citing Britannica, " Exasperated by criticism and the consciousness of failure, Gros sought refuge in the grosser pleasures of life.

M. Delcluze gives a brief notice of his life in Louis David et son temps (" Louis David and his Times "), and Julius Meyer's Geschichte der modernen französischen Malerei (" History of Modern French Painting ") contains what Britannica cites as an excellent criticism on his works.

Introduced in 1974 with the 15th edition, the Propædia and Micropædia were intended to replace the Index of the 14th edition ; however, after widespread criticism, the Britannica restored the Index as a two-volume set in 1985.

Kevin D. Williamson of National Review Online defended the Newseum and called the criticism " nonsense concentrate ".

Online, general criticism has been also divided, but leaning towards the positive.

Other organisations for the promotion of electronic literature include trAce Online Writing Community, a British organisation, started in 1995, that has fostered electronic literature in the UK, Dichtung Digital, a journal of criticism of electronic literature in English and German, and ELINOR, a network for electronic literature in the Nordic countries, which provides a directory of Nordic electronic literature.

Ortiz was subsequently supported in her criticism by fellow commentator at National Interest Online, Anatol Lieven, who raised the levels of criticism to include Cohens efforts as a historian and analyst as well as tackling other pronouncements on US foreign policy in the middle east made by Cohen.

Derbyshire's views on the Schiavo case attracted criticism from fellow writers at National Review Online such as Ramesh Ponnuru.

To reduce this criticism, The International Association for K-12 Online Learning ( iNACOL ) has developed a set of standards released on February 21, 2008.

* Nobel, Alfred Bernhard in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

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Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:

* Encyclopædia Britannica 1911: Ambrosia

* Encyclopædia Britannica Online, " Abydos " search: EncBrit-Abydos, importance of Abydos.

This article incorporates information from the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

* Encyclopædia Britannica 1911: Alessandro Algardi

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

* Encyclopædia Britannica: Acts of the Apostles

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The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, thought the term was derived from the Spanish barrueco, a large, irregularly-shaped pearl, and it was for a time confined to the craft of the jeweller.

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The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition remarks that " At the time it was framed the charter was considered extraordinarily liberal " and that " the government has always been largely non-sectarian in spirit.

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* Encyclopædia Britannica: Jeremiah

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In the semi-autobiographic Henry Miller's Tropic of Capricorn the narrator describes a period of time selling the Encyclopædia Britannica door by door in the town.