Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who redacts; an editor or compiler of texts.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who redacts; one who prepares matter for publication; an editor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
Examples
“The critics attribute this to the final "redactor" of the Pentateuch who adopted, according to their views, the genealogical framework and the”
“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
“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.”
“Either that or they had a conscience redactor working in the background using up 95% of their CPU/intellectual resources.”
“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.”
The Guardian: The Good Book: A Secular Bible by AC Grayling – review
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You claimed they were, by misquoting the redactor.”
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