The conventional symbol for ‘Redactor’, an editor or collector of material of books of the Bible to whom we owe the completed form, and who was inspired by his own beliefs and theological convictions.
Citation for R
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MLA
"R." In A Dictionary of the Bible. Ed. W. R. F. Browning. Oxford Biblical Studies Online. May 19, 2013. <http://www.oxfordbiblicalcstudies.com/article/opr/t94/e1573>.
Chicago
"R." In A Dictionary of the Bible. , edited by W. R. F. Browning. Oxford Biblical Studies Online, http://www.oxfordbiblicalcstudies.com/article/opr/t94/e1573 (accessed May 19, 2013).