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Semeia 18: Genesis 2 and 3, Kaleidoscopic Structural Readings 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...

with other elements. Yet in and of themselves structural elements are meaningless not because of a “lack of meaning” but rather because of a “surplus of meaning”: they have so many potential denotations and connotations that they would be hopelessly ambiguous without the selecting process performed by the network of relations. As such, structural elements do not correspond to the meaning-centered elements considered in non-structuralist literary studies. In fact, from a structuralist perspective,
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