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Semeia 12: The Poetics of Faith, Part 1: Rhetoric, Eschatology, and Ethics in the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

in heaven in which there is an angelic liturgy, described in the fragments partially published under the title “Order of the Songs of the Sabbath Holocaust” (Strugnell). Beyond New Testament times, this apocalyptic image flourishes in rabbinic and Hekaloth Jewish sources, but further examples are not germane to our present purpose. 3.1 Quite different from this notion of the temple in heaven is that of the temple as a symbol of the structure of the universe in which
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