Semeia 1: A Structuralist Approach to the Parables (Biblia.com)

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Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

servants are rewarded, and bad (faithless, unsuccessful) servants are punished, and each can be presumed to have known and expected such an outcome. In the Doorkeeper punishment is left implicit in Mark 13:36 and reward noted explicitly in Luke 12:38. In the original version the sanctions may have been totally implicit. In the next two parables there is an explicit division into good rewarded and bad punished. This is carefully balanced and evenly stressed in the Overseer and the Talents parables.

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