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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 text provides and the reading conventions that the reader assumes for the narrative in question. It is difficult to know what reading conventions are presupposed by the Gospels. The “death of character” in modern fiction, which is usually dated from D. H. Lawrence (McCarthy: 173; Macauley and Lanning: 61; Mudrick: 212), cannot be assumed as a reading convention for any literature before the nineteenth century. The death of character is usually attributed to the dissolution of the view of the
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