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  • An editor / historian combined J & E into a text known as Redactor of J and E, or RJE for short.

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias 2009

  • In order to uphold their division of the inspired text into the so-called J and P documents, they maintain that the Akkadian story was copied partially in the J and partially in the P documents, and that the Biblical "Redactor" reunited these two partial accounts into one.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • The critics are aware of these gaps in the two documents, and explain them by supposing that the "Redactor", who had the original Flood stories before him, did not insert their complete text into the Biblical account.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • But if the "Redactor" omitted certain parts of the original documents in order to avoid repetitions, why did he not omit the repetitions discovered by the critics?

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Anyway, might I suggest coining a name for our Old English translator, or even simply calling him the OE Translator or the Orosius Translator or Orosius Redactor, since he edits as much as he translates.

    Argumentation, pt 1: Names Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • It's high time that the newspaper, and media industry stood up to the Redactor-in-Chief, and his Static Department, not only to protect the confidentiality of their sources, but to assert that they are more than propaganda-delivery vehicles for the White House.

    Press On 2007

  • Ostensibly, the executive branch is no longer satisfied being merely the Commander-in-Chief, but has now crowned itself the Redactor-in-Chief of the news in America.

    Shock and Awe: The Politics of Redaction 2006

  • So, ladies and gentlemen, if a former ambassador to the United Nations, Joseph Wilson, had found his article in the hands of the Redactor-in-Chief, we might never have heard of Valerie Plame nor, for that matter, of the actionable role played by I. Scooter Libby, and the unsavory efforts of Karl Rove, and the vice president to put a silencer on a malicious and deliberate leak.

    Shock and Awe: The Politics of Redaction 2006

  • The Second Redactor took his mother's arm, and the three of them went into a little enclosed courtyard that was a bower of autumn roses.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • MAYVAR: So once again, Young Redactor, you accuse me of heresy.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

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