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put across a theological message.
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If you compare what Matthew says to what he gets from Mark,
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and see what he adds and what he takes out,
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you have a really good idea of what his editorial message is,
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what his editorial concerns are, and we call this Redaction Criticism.
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Redaction is just a fancy word for editing.
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Why did scholars not call it"editing criticism"?
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Because we like two-bit words
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when one-bit words would work just as well.
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So it's Redaction Criticism is what you'll see in the scholarship.
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It just means paying attention to how
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the Gospel writers edited their sources to get out their own message.