Semeia:
An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism91 issues
(1974-2002)
Published by Society of Biblical Literature
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Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and
emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. The journal was published
from 1974 through 2002. Articles explore the methods, models, and findings
of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism,
structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines.
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SEMEIA 86: Food and Drink in the Biblical Worlds
Our Menu and What Is Not On It: Editors’ Introduction — Athalya Brenner and
Jan Willem van Henten
PART I. FOOD PRODUCTION AND MARKETING
- “Oil from Flinty Rock” (Deuteronomy 32:13): Olive Cultivation and
Olive Oil Processing in the Hebrew Bible—A Socio-materialist Perspective
— Frank S. Frick
- Treading the Winepress: Actual and Metaphorical Viticulture in the
Ancient Near East — Victor H. Matthews
- Luke’s Market Exchange District: Decentering Luke’s Rich Urban
Center — Jim Grimshaw
PART II. SEDUCTIVE MENUS
- From Queen to Cuisine: Food Imagery in the Jezebel Narrative —
Deborah A. Appler
- To Eat or Not to Eat: Where is Wisdom in this Choice? — Judith E.
McKinlay
- Salome and Jesus at Table in the Gospel of Thomas — Kathleen E.
Corley
PART III. IMAGINATIVE FOODS
- The Food of Love: Gendered Food and Food Imagery in the Song of
Songs — Athalya Brenner
- YHWH’s Sour Grapes: Images of Food and Drink in the Prophetic
Discourses of the Hebrew Bible — Robert P. Carroll
PART IV. ON NOT-EATING
- When Fathers Refuse to Eat: The Trope of Rejecting Food and Drink in
Biblical Narrative — Diane M. Sharon
PART V. FOOD AS A SOCIAL MARKER
- Food, Drink and Sects: The Question of Ingestion in the Qumran Texts
— Philip R. Davies
- “Not by Bread Alone . . .”: The Ritualization of Food and Table Talk
in the Passover Seder and in the Last Supper — Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus
- Jewish Food Laws in Early Christian Community Discourse — Peter J.
Tomson
PART VI. RESPONSES
- Eating Their Words — Alice Bach
- A Question of Theory or Experimentality — Daniel Boyarin
- Reflections on Table Fellowship and Community Identity — Adele
Reinhartz
SEMEIA 87: The Social World of the Hebrew Bible: Twenty-Five Years of
the Social Sciences in the Academy
Introduction: Case Studies from the Second Wave of Research in the Social
World of the Hebrew Bible — Stephen L. Cook and Ronald A. Simkins
CASE STUDIES
- Ancient Perceptions of Space/Perceptions of Ancient Space — James W.
Flanagan
- In the Shadow of Cain — Paula M. McNutt
- The Gift in Ancient Israel — Gary Stansell
- The Unwanted Gift: Implications of Obligatory Gift Giving in Ancient
Israel — Victor H. Matthews
- Whose Sour Grapes? The Addressees of Isaiah 5:1–7 in the Light of
Political Economy — Marvin L. Chaney
- Patronage and the Political Economy of Monarchic Israel — Ronald A.
Simkins
- The Lineage Roots of Hosea’s Yahwism — Stephen L. Cook
- To Shame or Not to Shame: Sexuality in the Mediterranean Diaspora —
Susan A. Brayford
- Gender, Class, and the Social-Scientific Study of Genesis 2–3 — Gale
A. Yee
- Ideology, Pierre Bourdieu’s Doxa, and the Hebrew Bible — Jacques
Berlinerblau
- Confronting Redundancy As Middle Manager and Wife: The Feisty Woman
of Genesis 39 — Heather A. McKay
RESPONSES
- Reconstructing Ancient Israel’s Social World — Frank S. Frick
- Twenty-Five Years and Counting — Norman K. Gottwald
Semeia 89: Northrop Frye and the Afterlife of the Word
Introduction — James M. Kee
ESSAYS
- Northrop Frye between Archetype and Typology — Robert Alter
- Towards Reconciling the Solitudes — Joe Velaidum
- “The Humanized God”: Biblical Paradigms of Recognition in Frye's
Final Three Books — David Gay
- The Ashes of the Stars: Northrop Frye and the Trickster-God —
Michael Dolzani
- Northrop Frye and the Poetry in Biblical Hermeneutics — James M. Kee
- Early Modern Women’s Words with Power: Absence and Presence —
Patricia Demers
- From Archetype to Antitype: A Look at Frygian Archetypology —
Margaret Burgess
- Modeling Biblical Narrative: Frye and D. H. Lawrence — William
Robins
RESPONSES
- Biblical Studies on a More Capacious Canvas: A Response to Joe
Velaidum and James M. Kee — David Jobling
- Reconfiguring the Liberal Imagination: A Response to Margaret
Burgess, Patricia Demers, and William Robins — J. Russell Perkin
- The “Something More” in the Bible: A Response to Robert Alter, David
Gay, and Michael Dolzani — Robert Cording
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