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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...

Jerome H. Neyrey Weston School of Theology Mary Douglas’ “idea of purity” refers to the systematic structures, classifications and evaluations which shape social groups. “There is a place for everything and everything in its place”—a saying applicable to people, places, times, things, etc. What is “in place” is pure, what is not is a pollution. In Mark, Jesus appears to be out of place most of the time, dealing with people he should avoid, doing unconventional
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