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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...

Markan material strung together either introducing or elaborating it. The Gospel is only the pericope writ large. Some later Markan scholars who recognized Mark as composer rather than mere collector divide the Markan text into several sections of considerable size. For example, Norman Perrin (1971:5), following the clue of the Markan summaries as division markers, finds five “major sections” plus the apocalyptic discourse and the passion narrative, arriving at a Markan outline of seven major headings.3
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