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Semeia 21: Anthropological Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy 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...

been made of the writings of anthropologists, sociologists, and social psychologists. Herbert Huffmon has written on the origins of prophecy. Thomas Overholt has discussed the prophetic process. Simon Parker has dealt with the question of possession trance. The social psychology of prophecy has been investigated by Martin Buss. Burke Long has treated prophetic authority. The contributions to this present volume constitute a valuable addition to this material with discussions of the prophetic call,
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