Complex sentence: Unlike its parent discipline, form criticism, redaction criticism does not look at the various parts of a narrative to discover the original genre; instead, it focuses on how the redactor (s) has shaped and molded the narrative to express their theological goals.
Split into simpler sentences: Unlike its parent discipline, form criticism, redaction criticism does not look at the various parts of a narrative to discover the original genre. Instead, it focuses on how the redactor shaped and molded the narrative to express theological goals.