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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...

problems in personal terms, they did not notice what the Bible was saying about national, political, and economic oppression. In contrast, when oppressed people began to re-read the Bible, confident that they themselves were capable of interpreting it, they noticed a consistent theme of oppression. Because of this Thomas Hanks and Elsa Tamez began to study the Hebrew and Greek words for oppression in the Bible. Their studies were enormously revealing. Walter Wink says of Tamez’ book: Why haven’t
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