redaction criticism
Source-layer biblical analysis
Redaction criticism is a method of biblical scholarship that analyzes how editors shaped religious texts.
The approach examines what ancient compilers added, removed, or rearranged when assembling source materials into final form—revealing theological priorities through editorial choices.
Redaction criticism shows how Matthew adapted Mark's gospel for a Jewish audience.
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- Gospel of MatthewOpening New Testament text
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- intertextualityConnections between written works
- synopticProviding general overview
editorial · scribal · textual analysis · manuscript · interpolation · transmission · compilation · final form · ancient texts · composition · exegesis · religious traditions · historical authenticity · cultural milieu · Luke · theology · Matthew · editing
- interpretationinterpretive dance, translation, interpreting, translating, construing
- Bible scholarshipPentateuch, Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, final form
- Bible studiesHebrew Bible, textual analysis, biblical authority, ancient manuscripts, Dead Sea Scrolls
- biblical criticismtextual analysis, literary analysis, literary forms, recension, apparatus
- biblical studiesscriptural study, biblical narratives, Hebrew Bible, textual analysis, Pentateuch
- Gospel studiesMatthew, Mark, Luke, John, evangelists
redaction criticismliterary criticism
Analyzing and evaluating fiction
redaction criticismdevotional reading
Religious text contemplation