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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...

parable proffers a vision of the selective vivacity or exuberance of life over against its wide miscarriage. 1.4 Accepting some such reading or hearing of the parable as an unsophisticated depth-response what can one say about it as a language vehicle? What is the correlation of form and communication? What observations about its rhetoric or linguistic structure would help to explain its power and to disentangle its real focus? Inadequate interpretations of the parable are certainly connected with
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