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No, critical scholarship is just too broad and heterogeneous a group to work as a scoping for this site. (It's really only marginally less broad than scholarship generally.)

There are occasional questions for which the scope seems like it could work (Dick Harfield brought up the question of Markan priority/the Synoptic problem below), but for many of them it would probably be fair to just ask for the consensus of academia generally - when there's such a strong consensus both critical and "conservative"/evangelical/whatever are all united in their position.

I'm just having a hard time thinking of questions for which the stereotypical "critical scholars" are so united in opposition to evangelical/traditionalist scholars that it would make sense to use them as a question scope here. For questions of dating, even if almost all evangelicals would say that the Pentateuch has its origins with Moses and almost all critical scholars would say it dates from long after him, there are still so many sub-positions on each side.

So rather than scoping a question to "critical scholars" it would be better to ask an overview question scoped to the particular broad category (ex. "those who says the Pentateuch has a first millennium BC origin").

No, critical scholarship is just too broad and heterogeneous a group to work as a scoping for this site. (It's really only marginally less broad than scholarship generally.)

No, critical scholarship is just too broad and heterogeneous a group to work as a scoping for this site. (It's really only marginally less broad than scholarship generally.)

There are occasional questions for which the scope seems like it could work (Dick Harfield brought up the question of Markan priority/the Synoptic problem below), but for many of them it would probably be fair to just ask for the consensus of academia generally - when there's such a strong consensus both critical and "conservative"/evangelical/whatever are all united in their position.

I'm just having a hard time thinking of questions for which the stereotypical "critical scholars" are so united in opposition to evangelical/traditionalist scholars that it would make sense to use them as a question scope here. For questions of dating, even if almost all evangelicals would say that the Pentateuch has its origins with Moses and almost all critical scholars would say it dates from long after him, there are still so many sub-positions on each side.

So rather than scoping a question to "critical scholars" it would be better to ask an overview question scoped to the particular broad category (ex. "those who says the Pentateuch has a first millennium BC origin").

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No, critical scholarship is just too broad and heterogeneous a group to work as a scoping for this site. (It's really only marginally less broad than scholarship generally.)