Abstract:
This is a bibliographical research whose object of investigation is the assumptions of the Historical-Critical Method of biblical interpretation. The general objective of this investigation is to seek to relate the assumptions of the Historical-Critical Method and its impact on biblical interpretation, in addition to conceptualizing the method, describing its origins, relating its methodological steps and its assumptions. The research is divided into three chapters. The first addresses the origins of the Historical-Critical Method and its methodological steps. The second discusses the assumptions of the Historical-Critical Method arising from rationalism and the work of the German theologian Johann Salomo Semler. The third talks about the impact of the assumptions of the Historical-Critical Method on biblical interpretation. Through this study, the historical, theological and philosophical context of the emergence of the Historical-Critical Method is verified, in addition to the distinction between its methodological steps. The contributions of rationalism and Johann Salomo Semler to the method's assumptions were listed. Positions regarding the impact of applying the method were also reported. It is concluded that the assumptions of the Historical-Critical Method influence biblical interpretation, as it is a method that fails in its objectivity, denies the divine inspiration of the Scriptures and reinterprets the supernatural contained in the texts as an adaptation to the myths of the time of its composition.
