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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...

related to such approaches which also emphasize that the production of meaning is rule governed. I want to refer to “reader criticism” derived from the work of Iser (Iser 1974 and 1978). Yet, right away, an essential difference appears. While both theories are pragmatic theories (Parret, 1983: 94–98; despite Abrams’s taxonomy which would, I guess, classify speech act theory as “expressive;” Abrams 1953), the focus of attention is on different extra-textual domains: the production of meaning by the
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