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redact

verb blot out, censor, cut out, delete, edit, edit out, erase, excise, expunge, extirpate, make deletions, redraft, revamp, rework, rewrite, strike out, work over
Associated concepts: censorship, redact testimony

See also: edit, formulate, revise

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In his opinion, the redactors of the Talmud had before them the three proof attempts in which R.

The tripartite structure in sugyot from Tractate Eruvin of the Babylonian Talmud

Michael Konkel investigates the innerbiblical links between Exodus 32-34 and the rest of the Enneateuch in order to determine whether the post-Priestly redactor of this passage was working within the framework of an Enneateuch.

Pentateuch, Hexateuch, or Enneateuch? Identifying Literary Works in Genesis through Kings

provided a name for the anonymous redactor, my task here is to provide a

From medieval mystic to early modern anchoress: rewriting The Book of Margery Kempe

14) I suggest here that the second redactor of "The Black Horse Ledger" the writer of the cursive ink labels, is white; historical facts about Indian alphabetic literacy, in particular the Northern Cheyenne's late adoption of alphabetic script given their limited contact with whites, support this conclusion.

Manifest meanings: the selling (not telling) of American Indian history and the case of "The Black Horse Ledger"

Law compilations in ancient Israel and Judah had a similar scribal origin (see further below), but the depiction of law as an expression of YHWH's will already by the redactors of the Covenant Code (CC) in the Neo-Assyrian period gave these compilations a prescriptive force that distinguishes them from their Mesopotamian counterparts (pp.

Altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte: Gesammelte Studien

His concession to this viewpoint is to suggest that perhaps TI[chi square] was the redactor of the scroll in essentially its final form.

Rhetoric and Redaction in Trito-Isaiah: The Structure, Growth and Authorship of Isaiah 56-66

Boyarin traces the rise of the famed rabbinic "pluralism" to the fifth and sixth century redactors of the Bavli.

Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity

It also illuminates the beliefs and outlook of those later redactors and enables us to glimpse the way in which they understood and used the earlier prophetic material (hence the `Tradition-Historical' element of the book's title).

From Old Revelation to New: Tradition-Historical and Redaction-Critical Study of Temporal Transitions in Prophetic Prediction

While Otto provides a helpful corrective to the idea that the Temple Scroll "paradoxically" depends on and undermines the authority of Torah simultaneously, more consideration could have been given to another paradox that his study reveals: even as the Temple Scroll rejects the Pentateuch Redactors' position that direct divine revelation is coterminous with the Sinaitic laws of the written Torah, it tacitly endorses the pentateuchal hermeneutic insofar as the bulk of its "new" Sinaitic law in fact results from interpretation of the Torah--just as the Pentateuch Redactors would have it.

Tora in der Hebraischen Bibel: Studien zur Redaktionsgeschichte und synchronen Logik diachroner Transformationen

Old Testament scholar Job explains that redaction criticism approaches a text not as a single piece but as a conglomerate that developed over time as different hands, or redactors, have made their contributions.

Jeremiah's Kings; a study of the monarchy in Jeremiah

More important is the fact that the book provides a sophisticated and compelling answer to a fundamental question, namely why Guru Arjan, as well as the redactors of other early versions of the AG, saw fit to include this material in their compilations.

The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib: Sikh Self-Definition and the Bhagat Bani

Nevertheless, this book has the merit of at least making the attempt to visualize more concretely the reality behind literary theories about multiple redactors, complex text-critical reconstructions, and the creation and transmission of literature in the post-exilic context of Persian Judah.