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Semeia 59: Ideological Criticism of Biblical Texts 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...

families was assiduously maintained by the returnees (cf. Ezra 2). Here we can see the real force of the identity created by the deportation experience. The people of the land and the returned descendants of the deportees both shared roots in the pre-destruction period—whatever forms of assimilation may have taken place in Babylonia and whatever the consequences of widespread rape during the Babylonian devastations of Judah and Jerusalem (Lam 5:11)—and were therefore in many senses kith and kin of
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