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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...

Daniel Patte Vanderbilt University The method of A.-J. Greimas is followed in distinguishing three structural levels of a text into deep or elementary, superficial or intermediate, and surface or stylistic structures. The first is here discussed only in passing and the third level is omitted completely. Focus is on narrative structure which belongs on the level of superficial structures. There are two types of narrative structure:
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