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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...

1.2 It is therefore not surprising that long before the rise of reception theory in literary studies, the reader did feature in various hermeneutical frameworks developed for the interpretation of biblical texts. For example, the creative role of the early communities in the shaping of the Jesus tradition was recognized from the outset by the History of Religions school. The Sitz-im-Leben, the famous concept developed by form criticism, presupposes a reconstruction of the audience and of the situation
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