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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...

models for the formal identification of features of the text in terms of their effect upon the reader and for the structure of the hermeneutical process. The fact that this theory deals with the communication process as a whole is both its strength, as it has the potential to elucidate the meaning-effect as a whole, and its weakness, especially when applied to texts. The difficulty is that the verification of such models necessarily involves the effect of the communication act upon the addressee,
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