Songs of the Beatles and other artists have been reinvented by many people over the years. Each time a song is covered, the artist gives an original interpretation. The new rendition is the way the artist conveys how he or she relates to the song. The musician may add or delete aspects of the song to transform the music to portray a personal feeling or mood. Synonymous to the covering of a song, redaction is the act of revising or editing a piece of writing. An author edits a literary work to transmit personal interpretations to the readers. For instance, the author of the gospel of Luke 7:36-50 reinterpreted the story found in Mark 14:3-9. Scholars agree that the author of Luke used the gospel of Mark as a resource for his own rendering of the life of Jesus. The account in the Luke has added and deleted various details from the parable in Mark to transform the content, which affects the overall impact of the gospel text and gives insight to the redactor’s social situation.
The scribe in Luke adapts the version told in Mark by adding and deleting distinct elements to conform to his own writing style. For example, the author of Luke never calls Simon a “leper,” or mentions the cost of the ointment. He also states that instead of pouring the ointment on Jesus’ head, as told in Mark, the woman anointed Jesus’ feet with ointment. Here, the writer of Luke also adds that the woman cried on Jesus’ feet, wiped away her tears with her hair, and kissed his feet. The editor of Luke leaves out the argument among the Pharisees about how the woman should have sold the ointment, and only reveals the faithlessness of the Pharisees through their questioning of whether or not Jesus knew the woman was a sinner. To prove a point, Luke contains a short ...