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The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels bridges the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students and lay people desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and summary format. The topics range from cross-sectional themes (such as faith, law, and Sabbath), to methods of interpretation (such as form criticism, redaction criticism, and sociological approaches), from...

Redaction criticism is a historical and literary discipline which studies both the ways the redactors/ editors/authors changed their sources and the seams or transitions they utilized to link those traditions into a unified whole. The purpose of this approach is to recover the author’s theology and setting. Redaction criticism is the third of four “schools” of criticism developed in this century to study the Gospels and other biblical narratives: Form criticism,* which seeks