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Semeia 39: Orality, Aurality and Biblical Narrative 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...

is not evident to the milieu in which the interpreter’s audience lives. Interpretation can be applied to anything that bears information: a human gesture, an eclipse, a chart, for example. To interpret verbal utterance is to bring out what the utterance does not of itself reveal to a given audience. What an utterance reveals calls for no interpretation. Interpretation deals with here-and-now non-evident, or not-so-evident matter embedded in whatever is evident. Verbal discourse regularly calls for
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