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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 second reference to the tree of knowledge is found in the first word God speaks to the human being. It includes a permission and a prohibition, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (2:16–17). Although the text does not say it explicitly, the tree of life is included among the trees from which the human being may eat. Only the tree of knowledge
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