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Semeia 14: Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre 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...

recognizable type of writing. The choice of the name “apocalypse” is influenced by the use of that word in some ancient works, and more immediately by current scholarly usage. We therefore begin from the current, loose and inconsistent scholarly use of “apocalypse” and “apocalyptic” and inquire which works can meaningfully be classified together as one coherent genre. There is a general consensus among modern scholars that there is a phenomenon which may be called
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