What Is Redaction Critic

by Norman Perrin

Book Overview

For the past several decades New Testament scholarship has been strongly influenced by a discipline that arose in post-war Germany and is here called redaction criticism. Professor Perrin defines... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800601815
• ISBN13: 9780800601812
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.

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Searching for the truth

Arising in post-war Europe, redaction criticism is "the discipline concerned with the theological motivation of the author as it is revealed in the collection, arrangement, editing, and modification of traditional material or the creation of new forms within the traditions of early Christianity." Perrin shows how it's been done and the rewards of modern scientific methods of studying scripture and seeking the truth of the Word of God.