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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...

more recent work in this area, an article by Monroe and a dissertation by Zwettler (not seen by me). The article by Monroe certainly presents some impressive evidence and his samples show very high percentages of formulaic language. He has no hesitation in describing pre-Islamic poetry as “authentic, traditional, oral-formulaic poetry” (39). 1.31 The great wealth of scholarly studies on oral poetry, especially those stimulated by the work of Parry and Lord, has produced a number of issues which have
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