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Semeia Studies
Semeia Studies publishes scholarly monographs and collections of essays that represent the best of interdisciplinary biblical studies. Studies employing the methods and perspectives of linguistics, folklore studies, literary criticism, social anthropology, postmodern studies, and other comparable approaches are invited.

For more information about publishing a book in this series, contact the series editor: Gale A. Yee   


Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
edited by Roland Boer, 2007, SemeiaSt 63
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Reading Other-wise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with Their Local Communities
edited by Gerald O. West, 2007, SemeiaSt 62
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Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q
edited by Richard Horsley, 2006, SemeiaSt 60
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Daughter Zion Talks Back to the Prophets: A Dialogic Theology of the Book of Lamentations
by Carleen R. Mandolfo, 2007, SemeiaSt 58
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This Abled Body: Rethinking Disabilities in Biblical Studies
edited by Hector Avalos, Sarah Melcher, and Jeremy Schipper, 2007, SemeiaSt 55
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Marks of an Apostle: Deconstruction, Philippians, and Problematizing Pauline Theology
by James A. Smith, 2005, SemeiaSt 53
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Memory, Tradition, and Text: Uses of the Past in Early Christianity
edited by Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher, 2005, SemeiaSt 52
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The Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture, and the Space Between
edited by Fiona C. Black, 2006, SemeiaSt 51
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Approaching Yehud: New Approaches to the Study of the Persian Period
edited by Jon L. Berquist, 2007, SemeiaSt 50
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Hidden Transcripts and the Arts of Resistance: Applying the Work of James C. Scott to Jesus and Paul
edited by Richard A. Horsley, 2004, SemeiaSt 48
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Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Antiquity
edited by Jonathan A. Draper, 2004, SemeiaSt 47
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Orality, Literacy, and Colonialism in Southern Africa
edited by Jonathan A. Draper, 2003, SemeiaSt 46
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New Testament Masculinities
edited by Stephen D. Moore and Janice Capel Anderson, 2003, SemeiaSt 45
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Pregnant Passion: Gender, Sex, and Violence in the Bible
edited by Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, 2003, SemeiaSt 44
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Levinas and Biblical Studies
edited by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, Gary A. Phillips, and David Jobling, 2003, SemeiaSt 43
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Yet with a Steady Beat: Contemporary U.S. Afrocentric Biblical Interpretation
edited by Randall C. Bailey, 2003, SemeiaSt 42
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Elusions of Control: Biblical Law on the Words of Women
by Jione Havea, 2003, SemeiaSt 41
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Knowing Kings: Knowledge, Power, and Narcissism in the Hebrew Bible
by Stuart Lasine, 2001, SemeiaSt 40
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Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity in Genesis 12-36 and Ethnic Boundaries in Post-exilic Judah
by R. Christopher Heard, 2001, SemeiaSt 39
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Mikhail Bakhtin and Biblical Scholarship: An Introduction
by Barbara Green, 2000, SemeiaSt 38
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The Labour of Reading: Desire, Alienation, and Biblical Interpretation
edited by Fiona C. Black, Roland Boer, and Eric Runions, 1999, SemeiaSt 36
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Ethnic Myths and Pentateuchal Foundations: A New Approach to the Formation of the Pentateuch
by E. Theodore Mullen Jr., 1997, SemeiaSt 35
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Prophecy and Prophets: The Diversity of Contemporary Issues in Scholarship
edited by Yehoshua Gitay, 1997, SemeiaSt 33
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Political Satire in the Bible
by Ze'ev Weisman, 1998, SemeiaSt 32
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Responsa: Literary History of a Rabbinic Genre
by Peter J. Haas, 1996, SemeiaSt 31
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Jameson and Jeroboam
by Roland Boer, 1996, SemeiaSt 30
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The Structure and Persuasive Power of Mark: A Linguistic Approach
by John G. Cook, 1995, SemeiaSt 28
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Discourse Analysis of Biblical Literature: What It Is and What It Offers
edited by Walter R. Bodine, 1995, SemeiaSt 27
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Voices from Amsterdam: A Modern Tradition of Reading Biblical Narrative
edited by Martin Kessler, 1994, SemeiaSt 26
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The Hebrew Bible in Its Social World and in Ours
by Norman K. Gottwald, 1993, SemeiaSt 25
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Narrative History and Ethnic Boundaries: The Deuteronomistic Historian and the Creation of Israelite National Identity
by E. Theodore Mullen Jr., 1993, SemeiaSt 24
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Themes and Variations: A Study of Action in Biblical Narrative
by Robert C. Culley, 1992, SemeiaSt 23
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Elijah and Elisha in Socioliterary Perspective
edited by Robert B. Coote, 1992, SemeiaSt 22
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Text and Tradition: The Hebrew Bible and Folklore
edited by Susan Niditch, 1990, SemeiaSt 20
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The Religious Dimensions of Biblical Texts: Greimas's Structural Semiotics and Biblical Exegesis
by Daniel Patte, 1990, SemeiaSt 19
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Signs and Wonders: Biblical Texts in Literary Focus
edited by J. Cheryl Exum, 1989, SemeiaSt 18
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Paul and the Irony of Affliction
by Karl A. Plank, 1987, SemeiaSt 17
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The Future of Biblical Studies: The Hebrew Scriptures
edited by Richard Elliott Friedman and H. G. M. Williamson, 1987, SemeiaSt 16
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Text and Reality: Aspects of Reference in Biblical Texts
by Bernard C. Lategan and Willem S. Vorster, 1985, SemeiaSt 14
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Semantics of New Testament Greek
by J. P. Louw, 1982, SemeiaSt 11
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The Biblical Mosaic: Changing Perspectives
edited by Robert Polzin and Eugene Rothman, 1982, SemeiaSt 10
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Gaps in the numbering of volumes in the series indicate that a title is out of print or has been accepted for publication but not yet published.
 
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