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Semeia 81: Thinking in Signs: Semiotics and Biblical Studies … Thirty Years After 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...

Interestingly, the same Hebrew root atsab is used for YHWH’s pain, for woman’s birth pains (3:16) and for the pains of agricultural labour (3:17). To conclude, if we search for the mother-like in YHWH Elohim, we may find meanings and analogies that resemble the birth process in the Garden of Eden story, in the first stirrings of human life, the preparation for autonomy, the expulsion from a protected environment, the vulnerability of the newly- born, the irrevocable severing from the life source,
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