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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...

the reader, or to a conscious choice to read the text from a specific perspective or for a specific purpose. 3.2 For example, Fowler (1983) has developed Steiner’s distinction between the “reader” and the “critic” and applied it to the text of Mark. The reader accepts the text at face value, is intent on a positive realization of the text and in this sense becomes a “servant” of the text. The critic reads reflectively, keeps distance and thus becomes a “judge and master” of the text (cf. Fowler,
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