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Semeia 82: In Search of the Present: The Bible through Cultural Studies 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...

of Bal, Bach, Exum & Co. with “high” artistic representations of biblical texts, and with Hollywood Bible epics (mostly of the fifties and sixties), is a generation-specific one. While the work of these critics may well address the concerns and interests of their own generation (and social class?), Dowsett feels that they do not address his. He sets himself the task of addressing a “Generation X” readership instead through analyzing diverse appropriations of the Bible in popular music, ranging from
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