Biblical criticism, in particular higher criticism, covers a variety of methods used since the Enlightenment in the early 18th century as scholars began to apply to biblical documents the same methods and perspectives which had already been applied to other literary and philosophical texts.
圣经批判，特别是高等批判，涵盖18世纪初启蒙运动以来使用的各种方法，这时学者开始将应用于其他文学和哲学文本的方法和观点应用在圣经文件中。