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Semeia 68: Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible 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...

grain and wine. Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be a lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. The one who curses you be accursed, and the one who blesses you be blessed.” (Gen 27:27–29) And in this ancient context, the blessing is not merely a promise, but a formal conferring of favor and an empowerment which cannot be taken back or transferred (see Gen 27:30–40). Like the example from Qumran, this text clarifies that cursing is the reciprocal of blessing.
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