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Semeia 73: “Reading With”: Exploration of Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings 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...

conditioned to identify with the rich man in the parable, who is then constructed to stand for God, and from whose perspective the manager is called unjust. But does the rich man in this parable represent God, and is the manager unjust? Read from the perspective of ordinary West African peasant farmers who live by the world-view provided by their traditional cultures, and who experience economic oppression at the hands of rich middle-men produce traders, the parable evokes an interpretation which
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