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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...

that it was a delight to the eyes” (3:6). This tree is exactly like all the other trees, beautiful and delicious (2:9). Moreover, it is “desirable for the knowledge it could give” (3:6). This tree is seen to be good (ṭôb) and to offer them the knowledge of everything (conjunctive meaning). A new possibility of life is envisioned: a better awareness of the good and a more complete experience of it. The human being longs to surpass the limits with which he is confronted. After eating the fruit of
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