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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...

ideological way of handling the biblical text. This dominant tradition within current British scholarship sweeps aside the questions raised by feminist, liberationist, and other ideologically sensitive exegetes in favour of the status quo. But why? The tradition developed within British cultural studies provides some of the answers. Behind modern cultural studies lies an older tradition usually known as the “Culture and Civilization” tradition. It was in
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