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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 term is traceable to the 1789 Form of Government of the PC ( U. S. A .) and the Presbyterian understanding of the pastoral office.

This change is effected by progressing the 1's down the set and progressing the 2's up ( also up the hall and down the hall ; see Contra Dance Form main article for full characterizations of the progression in the eight dance forms mentioned above ).

In computer science, a popular notation for context-free grammars is Backus – Naur Form, or BNF.

Informally, a relational database table is often described as " normalized " if it is in the Third Normal Form.

After potential special agent candidates are cleared with TS clearance and the Form SF-312 non-disclosure agreement is signed, they attend the FBI training facility located on Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.

* The Form of Space — As Qfwfq " falls " through space, he cannot help but notice that his trajectory is parallel to that of a beautiful woman, Ursula H ' x, and that of lieutenant Fenimore, who is also in love with Ursula.

The famous Buddhist saying " Form is emptiness, emptiness is form " ( 色即是空 ， 空即是色 ) comes from this sutra.

The Form of the Good is the cause of all things and when it is seen it leads a person to act wisely.

Hence, in The Sophist Plato argues that Being is a Form in which all existent things participate and which they have in common ( though it is unclear whether ' Being ' is intended in the sense of existence, copula, or identity ); and argues, against Parmenides, that Forms must exist not only of Being, but also of Negation and of non-Being ( or Difference ).

The alternate Direct Form II only needs N delay units, where N is the order of the filter – potentially half as much as Direct Form I.

** Busbars separated from functional units ( Form 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b )

** Terminals for external conductors separated from functional units but not from each other ( Form 3a, 3b )

** Functional units separated from each other ( Form 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b )

According to her Form 3, she also owns 38, 122, 000 stock options and restricted stock units ( worth approx.

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.

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 ).

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.

The objectives of normalization beyond 1NF ( First Normal Form ) were stated as follows by Codd:

( Form of Content, that Louis Hjelmslev distinguished from Form of Expression ) than how the word " house " may be tied to a certain image of a traditional house ( i. e. the relationship between signifier and signified ) with each term being established in reciprocal determination with the other terms than by an ostensive description or definition: when can we talk about a " house " or a " mansion " or a " shed "?

* The Snouters: Form and Life of the Rhinogrades, by Zoologist Gerolf Steiner, purports to be a non-fictional natural history study, and was written, published, and presented as if it were an actual scientific treatise documenting the recently-extinct indigenous wildlife (" Rhinogradentia ") of the equally fictitious Hi-yi-yi archipelago.

** Samaritan Hebrew – Form of Hebrew used by the Samaritans

The label's first release was ( Super Numeri member ) Pop Levi's single " Blue Honey " in September 2006, and was followed by Pop Levi's debut album The Return To Form Black Magick Party in February 2007.

* Fu Style Dragon Form Eight Trigrams Palms by Fu Wing Fay and Lai Zonghong ( translated by Joseph Crandall ); Copyright, 1998, Smiling Tiger Martial Arts

** John Cantius ( Extraordinary Form, celebrated by Traditionalist Catholic )

In such cases, service members may appeal directly to the military service department by way of a Defense Department Form 149, which requests an official change to military records.

It must be signed by a solicitor who is forming the company, or by one of the people named as a director or company secretary on Form 10.

Most RFCs use a common set of terms such as " MUST " and " NOT RECOMMENDED " ( as defined by RFC 2119 ), Augmented Backus – Naur Form ( ABNF ) ( as defined by RFC 5234 ) as a metalanguage, and simple text-based formatting, in order to keep the RFCs consistent and easy to understand.

The notion of the Program involves " an act to edit function and human activities " as the pretext of architectural design: epitomised in the maxim Form follows function, first popularised by architect Louis Sullivan at the beginning of the 20th century.