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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...

1971a:161–76; 1971b:239–61; Beard). While the levels of literacy may have been relatively low, the cultures of the Hellenistic world were nevertheless dominated by the culture of literacy. Power and prestige in every area of life were connected with literacy (Jüthner: 25–26, 34; Marrou: 95–100, 150; Hengel 1976:106; Youtie 1975). However, while the literate culture became increasingly dominant, the marks of oral culture were always present and remained central for the majority of persons. Harris’s
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