In Dionysius. the praxix of ''community writing,'' which is the practice of publication in which a number of participants

I have spoken of "community writing," which is the practice of publication in which a number of participants in a process of copying, adding (usually) or subtracting material from Ur-Sources to propagate added/subtracted ideas in documentary transmission. This can appropriately be called "redaction" (as I understand the definition in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 10th), and it can be called simply "editing." Redaction Criticism is unfortuately merely referent to Bible Redaction and-- predictably with the hardshell evangelicals-- nixed (I suppose as somewhat/something that could offend "true believers").

I want by all means to get-away from the Bible-Bangers who seem blind to the reality that in publication, in any "then" and any "now," are edited quite usually, that is ARE redacted. There are books and articles now about modern redactional work, and I have a goodly number of these in my data folder "Redaction Studies." Some of these are about editing in anncient work-- including yet not restricted to Bible studies-- and I have a variety of texts that speak to a "how" and "why" of redaction. These methods and motivations for edits are to my liking best expressed in an article I have in this folder, that is The Rules of Redaction, Identify, Protect, Review (and Repeat) Eric Bier, et al., in IEEE COMPUTER AND RELIABILITY SOCIETIES, November/December 2009. This doc treats of redaction as it usually signifies in modern editorial work-- as subtracting-/blacking- out material that is "sensitive" in a document, as is the case in the recent Mueller Report and in the publication of health-/HIPPA- related information. Yet my Dictionary (just mentioned) definition that could include ADDING material to a text.

The gist of the Bier et al. article is that redaction is needed when "sensitive information" is in a text. Pertaining methinks to the Corpus Dionysiacum, I think awareness that Denys heavily (and covertly) uses material from Neo-Platonists and Plato himself=> Proclus references stand at 500X, Plotinus references are 91X in these works; Platonic works are given reference 216X. I think one can pay less attention to Bible citations and Patristic citations in the CD for the simpler reason that such reference would be "expected."

I have PDFs alleging forcibly that "community writing" is evident in Denys; Brons has mentioned parts of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy and the Letters have (perhaps pious) insertions to the would-be Dionysius-original. There are predictable "pseudipigraphal" texts attributed to Denys-- I have what would seem to be the-majority of these. Then-- referring to "community writing" there are the propagation of Pseudo-Pseudo-Denis TRANSLATIONS, in the West with Hilduin, Eriugena, St. Victor guy, Clowde of Unknowing guy, Boke of Privie Counsel guy, and all those who use Dionysius "in community" in the crabbed way of publication and editorial work ending with the printing press, and now especially with digital-age-publication.

Moreover, with my Critical Edition (Suchla and Heil/Ritter) of the Corpus of St. Dionysius, I can follow textual insertions/substractions in this text transmission, some of which seem to correct glitches in the text from-heretofore, and some PURE efforts to change/"purify" Denys' utterances.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO ME THAT I NEED TO USE THE "EVANGELICAL'S DENIAL" OF REDACTIONS FOR "HOLY," "MAGISTERIAL" METERIAL, AND THIS SEEMS TO DERIVE FROM THE USUAL CLOSED-SYSTEM THAT AN "ORTHODOXY" WANTS, IN THIS WAY, AS WELL, TO "EDIT BY DENIAL" (OF IMPORTANCE, OF VALIDITY) A PRESERVATIVE NECESSITY TO "FREEZE" THE NARRATIVES THAT MAKE THE CREEDS OF THE-MAGISTERIA "FOREVER" AND UNCHANGEABLE. DENYS-- A PROVEN FRAUD IN HIS SOURCING, A PROVEN INNOVATOR IN THE NOETIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE-INFINITE, THE-DARK-OBSCURITY OF TRANSCENDENCE AS AGNOSTIC-- IS NOT SCRIPTURE, IS NOT PER SE A CHURCH FATHER, HAS BEEN DEBUNKED AS AN APOSTLE-- AND
                                  IN SUCH A CASE I CAN DOCUMENT WITH A REAL KIND OF REDACTION-CRITIQUE, EDITORIAL-ANALYSIS, THE "ANYTHING-GOES" OF "COMMUNITY WRITING."

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