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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...

Walter Vogels St. Paul University The story of paradise in Genesis 2–3 mentions two mysterious trees in the middle of the garden. There is general agreement among scholars on the symbolism of the tree of life but no agreement at all on the meaning of the tree of knowledge. It keeps its secret still. Many studies on the issue have sought an interpretation in the area of ethics (moral discernment or the ability to determine good and evil for oneself).
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