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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...

written composition? Lord has argued strongly in favour of the use of statistical formulaic analysis to distinguish a purely oral style, a conventional style, and a purely written style (1967:15ff.) and has generally resisted the notion of a “transitional” text, something in between oral and written (1960:124–38). However, in his survey article, largely in response to an influential article by Larry D. Benson, “The Literary Character of Anglo-Saxon Formulaic Poetry”, Lord returns to the problem of
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