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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...

to judge by the high percentage of medical texts in the cuneiform documents of ancient Mesopotamia (Oppenheim:288–305), there can be no doubt that many diseases were also diagnosed, catalogued, and treated in ancient Israel. Thus, the conclusion is inescapable, that the impurities entered into the list have no intrinsic meaning in themselves but were selected because they serve a larger, overarching purpose. It is of no small significance that the diet laws of the priestly system (Leviticus 11) which
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