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Redaction Criticism and Textual Criticism
Redaction Criticism and Textual Criticism Introduction Imagine yourself excitedly waiting for a movie, about your favorite novel, to come out. Finally the day comes when it starts showing in the theatres. You used all your connections to be able to get premiere tickets for the movie. You are about to watch the movie about your favorite novel… Coming out of the theatres, you feel cheated. All the excitement, all the hype left you disappointed. You say to yourself, this isn’t what was in the novel, where the part about this, this part didn’t happen, and so on and so forth. You kept on ranting about it. You feel cheated. This happens a lot to people excitedly waiting for their favorite novel to go on the big screen just to be disappointed after watching it. How come movie directors and script writers change the book for the movies? Well first of all they can’t fit all of the details in the book in a movie, if they do, the movie would last for hours. Secondly, some of parts in the movie are change so that they’d be better suited for the movies. Of course these people need some “juicy” scenes to show in the movie so they insert things that never really happened in the book. Its normal that scenes are placed in movies just so they’d make it more Hollywood. Also there are times where the scenes we watch in the movies aren’t how we imagined them while reading. You imagine the main character handsomer or taller, or something else. You imagined the death more dramatic. A lot of these things are subject to how people envisioned or imagined them. These insertions of details and scenes though don’t just happen in Hollywood, according to some scholars the Bible is also a victim of this, such a thing called redaction. They believe that the writers of the bible inserted details and other stuff to make the bible, or more so the words and life of Jesus more “miraculous” and “religious”. Also as we’ve discussed in class there are 3 ways to translate the
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