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Semeia 31: Reader Response Approaches to Biblical and Secular Texts 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...

legislative ordination.” On the other hand, “the reader will often hold his llumination mute” (448). After all, to the reader the text is “ ‘a real presence’ irreducible to analytic summation and resistant to judgment in the sense in which the critic can and must judge” (440). The legislative duty of criticism has as a central task the evaluation and ranking of texts; part of the critic’s job is to tell us what we should and should not be reading. Steiner calls the set of texts prescribed by the
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