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Articles about old record, one produced by religious expert (10)

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I believe the answer is:

theologian

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'by religious expert' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'articles about old record one' is the wordplay.
'articles' becomes 'the an' (indefinite article 'the', definite article 'an').
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation).
'record one' becomes 'logi' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'o'+'logi'='ologi'
'thean' placed around 'ologi' is 'THEOLOGIAN'.

'produced' is the link.

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(Other definitions for theologian that I've seen before include "Student of religion" , "Expert in religious studies" , "divine" , "Doctor of Divinity" , "Religious scholar" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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