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Why was Redaction Criticism developed?
To address the shortcomings of Form Criticism and its tendency to fragment the text
Where does Redaction Criticism function?
Only where identifiable sources are present within a composition
Who coined the term Redaction Criticism?
Willi Marxsen in 1954
Who were the three main proponents of Redaction Criticsm in the mid-1950's?
1. Willi Marxsen
2. Hans Conzelmann
3. Gunther Bornkamm
Who defined Redaction Criticism as, "Redaction in Gospel Criticism describes the editorial work carried out by evangelists on their sources when they composed the gospels?"
Stephen Smallie
Who defined Redaction Criticism as, "Redaction criticism can be understood as the detection of the evangelist's creative contribution in all its aspects to the Christian tradition which they transmit?
Stephen Smallie
Who defines Redaction Criticism as, "A method of study that seeks to determine an author's view point by how he edits his source?"
Kenneth Kantzer
Who defines Redaction Criticism as, "it is concerned with studying the theological motivation of an author as revealed in the collection, arrangement, editing and modification of traditional material or creation of new forms within the traditions of early Christianity?"
Norman Perrin
Who defined Redaction Criticism as, "A method of studying the New Testament that concentrates on the way the principal author of a work has adapted (redacted) earlier materials to his own theological ends. Redaction is the conscious reworking of older materials in such a way as to meet new needs. It is editing that simply does not compile or retouch, but creatively transforms?”
Robert Fortna
Who defines Redaction Criticism as, "A research methodology that seeks to understand the gospels as complete literary works and not as collections of Pericopes as in Form Criticism. The emphasis is not upon the community as the causal factor in Gospel writing, but upon writer of the Gospel himself, the evangelis, who is considered to be an author in the fullest sense of the term and who articulates his own theological ideas and concepts by means of the Gospel he writes?"
Don Cook
What is the Redaction Critic seeking to discover?
Variations and similarities in the individual Gospels and thereby to determine the use which each author makes of his sources and, hopefully, the theological motivation behind that use.