Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.
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- noun A person who
redacts ; an editor or compiler of texts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
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Examples
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The critics attribute this to the final "redactor" of the Pentateuch who adopted, according to their views, the genealogical framework and the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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To conclude this outline of the critical results, the human element in Scripture is given prominence and represented as clothed with the imperfections, limitations, and errors of the times of its origin; many books are exhibited as the products of successive literary accretions, excluding any unity of authorship; in fact, for most of the histories, the unknown writers retire into the shadow to give place to the unifying labours of the equally unknown "redactor" or "redactors".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Now we can start another discussion about the hermeneutics of scripture, redactor errors in ancient texts, the ancient cultural context of scripture, and even the "Did God really say that?" conversation, but my focus is on another important issue.
Myisha Cherry: Come, Let Us Reason Together: Joel Osteen And The Lack Of Argument Construction In Religious Moral Conversations Myisha Cherry 2011
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Either that or they had a conscience redactor working in the background using up 95% of their CPU/intellectual resources.
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Afraid that the people might come and try to make him their leader – since that is the kind of thing people who cannot think for themselves are wont to do – he was careful to tell them that he himself was not the author of the visions contained in the book he had brought forth from his cave, he was merely their transmitter and occasional redactor.
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Now we can start another discussion about the hermeneutics of scripture, redactor errors in ancient texts, the ancient cultural context of scripture, and even the "Did God really say that?" conversation, but my focus is on another important issue.
Myisha Cherry: Come, Let Us Reason Together: Joel Osteen And The Lack Of Argument Construction In Religious Moral Conversations Myisha Cherry 2011
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My theory is that a Zwinglian redactor recovered some fragments of the works of the original Jim West and has edited them for publication in this new format.
Zwinglian Redactor Hypothesis James F. McGrath 2010
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A commenter on my recent post about the Documentary Hypothesis suggested a possible analogy to the activity of the redactor of the Pentateuch, namely Tatian's Diatessaron, the first attempt to create a single life of Jesus from the four Gospels.
Pentateuch as Diatessaron James F. McGrath 2010
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But we can make some reasonable assumptions about whom the redactor or editor had in mind when he or she included this among the most sacred scripture of his or her people.
Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010
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Many "redactor critics" of both the Old and New Testaments appeal to oral tradition, yet with the possible exception of a few prayers, no Biblical writings follow the patterns of oral tradition as noted by actual scholars of oral transmission such as Milman Parry.
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