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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...

The paradise account, which normally uses “Yahweh Elohim” for the divine name, here refers to “Elohim,” the title used in the creation account. In the two stories, these two places are the only ones where God speaks in the plural. These facts should caution us not to be too quick to conclude that the serpent is lying and that God is being ironical. ) In describing the vegetation of paradise, the text mentions two trees in particular (2:9). The first, “the tree
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