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Semeia 63: Characterization in Biblical Literature 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...

Fred W. Burnett Anderson College A “character” is a construct developed during the reading process out of textual indicators such as proper names. A “character” is also an effect of the reading process. When the reading process is taken into account, it is clear that characterization should be considered as a continuum on which even secondary characters may achieve some degree of “individuality.” On the one hand, as a
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