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History of religions school

The history of religions school (German: Religionsgeschichtliche Schule) is a term applied to a group of German Protestant theologians associated with the University of Göttingen in the 1890s. IdeasThe Religionsgeschichtliche Schule used the methodologies of higher criticism, a branch of criticism that investigates the origins of ancient texts in order to understand "the world behind the text."

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