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Semeia 53: The Fourth Gospel from a Literary Perspective 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...

The same comfort and hope that is extended to the disciples within the narrative world is thus extended to the readers of the gospel narrative: the disciples hear the voice of the risen Jesus, the readers hear the voice of the risen Jesus. One of the central purposes of the Fourth Gospel is to assure its readers in all future generations that they can have the same experience of Jesus as the characters in the narrative, that their experience of Jesus is not diminished because they are not first generation
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