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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...

3.24 Finally, since repetition is a crucial feature of oral style at all levels, some have pursued this line. Walter Koch’s article on “Recurrent Units in Written and Oral Texts” is an example. Others who discuss repetition make use of a model from information or communication theory (Wittig, Lindow). Wittig shifts the focus from composition and the oral poet to reception and the audience (see also Gray). 3.3 The last issue to be mentioned in this section is historicity and oral tradition. In an
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