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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...

meant to suggest a brothel, and the following verb, šākab, reinforces that suggestion.27 The association of prostitutes with taverns or beer houses is well attested in Mesopotamian texts,28 and it may be surmised that a similar association is assumed in our passage. As a prostitute he took her in from the street (and) supported her, as a prostitute he married her but gave her back (as separate property) her tavern (Ana ittisu VIII ii 23–25 [CAD, H:102a]). When I sit at the entrance of the tavern
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