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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...

theory which posits an absolute, unquestionable foundation for the grounding of truth (Lyotard). Postmodernism also questions totalizing schemes for explaining any or all of reality, whether these totalizing schemes include metanarratives about the essence of the universe or humanity or the self (Adam: 10).5 Furthermore, postmodernism demystifies any belief that appears natural and universal. It exposes such a belief as a “modern” power play and the “reason” behind it as a temporal, situated rationality
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