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Semeia 35: Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament and Its Social World 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...

sins” (2:10), which legitimates his dealings with sinners (2:1–17). He is God’s “physician” to them (2:17). 3. Jesus has authority over the Sabbath, because “the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath” (2:8). Third, according to Mark, Jesus was perceived by others as totally rejecting the idea of purity by his repeated and widespread violations of the maps of purity. In Mark 7, however, the evangelist indicates that, while Jesus does not wash before eating (7:2) or keep dietary laws (7:19), he has a purity
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