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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...

These patterns include units which are traditionally used together, line positions in which particular units are traditionally employed, conventional phrases, traditional verse patterns, fixed cola, associated groups of cola and fixed series of cola. (154) A statistical analysis of Text 4 reveals that 82% of the language is formulaic. In terms of the kind of measurement usually made in textual analysis for formulaic language, the percentage is quite high and Whitaker concludes that “the high frequency
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