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Semeia 45: Thinking Biblical Law 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...

Jacob Milgrom University of California Anthropologists like Monica Wilson hold that at their “deepest level” ritual reveals values, which are sociocultural facts. Turner (44) The biblical laws of impurity have no meaning individually but combine into a symbolic system which instructs Israel to eschew death and choose life, represented by the antipodal terms טָמֵא and קָדוֹשׁ, respectively. Since the Lord, the quintessence of קָדוֹשׁ, defines
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