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Semeia 46: Narrative Research on the Hebrew Bible 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...

other women, except hierodules and widows without male guardians. She is typically contrasted to the “normal” woman, i.e., the married woman, from whom she is separated spatially and symbolically, through distinctive dress5 and habitat. The places and times of her activity maintain distance between her and the married woman. She is a woman of the night, who appears on the streets when honorable women are secluded at home. She approaches strangers and businessmen by the roadside and in the public
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