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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...

George W. MacRae, S.J. Harvard Divinity School Apocalyptic literature envisioned a complete temple in heaven (TLevi 5:1), perhaps a development of the idea of the divine “pattern” (Exod 25:9). In Hellenistic Judaism we find the imagery of a temple-structured universe, the outer courts representing sea and earth, the inner court, heaven (Josephus); Philo also distinguished between the sense-perceptible world (the outer courts) and
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