Semeia, an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism, was published from 1972 through 2002. Each issue was devoted to a particular theme, and articles explored the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines. After 2002, the journal Semeia was replaced by the book series Semeia Studies.

Semeia 90-91: The Bible in Asian America edited by Tat-Siong Benny Liew, 2002	Paperback
Semeia 89: Northrop Frye and the Afterlife of the Word edited by James M. Kee, 2002	Paperback
Semeia 88: A Vanishing Mediator? The Presence/Absence of the Bible in Postcolonialism edited by Roland Boer and Gerald West, 2002	Paperback
Semeia 87: The Social World of the Hebrew Bible edited by Ronald Simkins and Stephen L. Cook, 2001	Paperback
Semeia 86: Food and Drink in the Biblical World edited by Athalya Brenner and Jan Willem van Heuter, 2001	Paperback
Semeia 85: God the Father in the Gospel of John edited by Adele Reinhartz, 2001	Paperback
Semeia 83-84: Slavery in Text and Interpretation edited by Allen Dwight Callahan, 2001	Paperback
Semeia 82: In Search of the Present: The Bible through Cultural Studies edited by Stephen D. Moore, 2000	Paperback
Semeia 81: Thinking in Signs: Semiotics and Biblical Studies … Thirty Years After edited by Daniel Patte, 2000	Paperback
Semeia 80: The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Intertextual Perspectives edited by Robert F. Stoops, 1999	Paperback
Semeia 79:Rhetorics of Resistance: A Colloquy on Early Christianity as Rhetorical Formation edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 1999	Paperback
Semeia 78: Reading the Bible as Women: Perspectives from Africa, Asia, and Latin America edited by Phyllis A. Bird, 1998	Paperback
Semeia 77: Bible and Ethics of Reading edited by Dana Nolan Fewell and Gary A. Phillips, 1998	Paperback
Semeia 76: Race, Class and the Politics of Biblical Translation edited by Randall C. Bailey and Tina Pippin, 1998	Paperback
Semeia 75: Postcolonialism and Scriptural Reading edited by Laura E. Donaldson, 1998	Paperback
Semeia 74: Biblical Glamour and Hollywood Glitz edited by Alice Bach, 1997	Paperback
Semeia 73: Reading With: An Exploration of the Interface between Critical and Ordinary Readings of the Bible edited by Cornel West and Musa W. Dube, 1997	Paperback
Semeia 72: Taking It Personally edited by Janice Capel Anderson and Jeffrey L. Staley, 1997	Paperback
Semeia 71: Textual Determinacy, Part 2 edited by Stephen Edward Robinson and Robert C. Culley, 1997	Paperback
Semeia 69-70: Intertextuality and the Bible edited by George Aichele and Gary Phillips, 1996	Paperback
Semeia 68: Honor and Shame in the World of the Bible edited by Victor H. Matthews and Don C. Benjamin, 1996	Paperback
Semeia 67: Transformations, Passages, and Processes edited by Mark McVann and Bruce Malina, 1995	Paperback
Semeia 66: Ethics and Politics in the Hebrew Bible edited by Douglas A. Knight and Carol Myers, 1995	Paperback
Semeia 65: Orality and Textuality in Early Christian Literature edited by Joanna Dewey, 1995	Paperback
Semeia 64: The Rhetoric of Pronouncement edited by Daniel Patte, 1994	Paperback
Semeia 63: Characterization in Biblical Literature edited by Adele Berlin and Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, 1994	Paperback
Semeia 62: Textual Determinacy, Part 1 edited by Robert C. Culley and Robert Bruce Robinson, 1993	Paperback
Semeia 61: Women, War, and Metaphor edited by Claudia Camp and Carole Fontaine, 1993	Paperback
Semeia 60: Fantasy and the Bible edited by George Aichele Jr. and Tina Pippin, 1993	Paperback
Semeia 59: Ideological Criticism of Biblical Texts edited by David Jobling and Tina Pippin, 1993	Paperback
Semeia 58: Discursive Formations, Ascetic Piety, and the Interpretation of Early Christian Literature, vol. 2 edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 1992	Paperback
Semeia 57: Discursive Formations, Ascetic Piety, and the Interpretation of Early Christian Literature, vol. 1 edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 1992	Paperback
Semeia 56: Social Networks in Early Christian Environment: Issues and Methods for Social History edited by L. Michael White, 1992	Paperback
Semeia 55: Early Christianity, Q and Jesus edited by John S. Kloppenborg and Leif E. Vaage, 1992	Paperback
Semeia 54: Poststructuralism as Exegesis edited by David Jobling and Stephen D. Moore, 1992	Paperback
Semeia 53: The Fourth Gospel from a Literary Perspective edited by R. Alan Culpepper and Fernando F. Segovia, 1991	Paperback
Semeia 52: How Gospels Began edited by Dennis E. Smith, 1991
Semeia 51: Text/History/Self in Structural and Poststructural Exegesis edited by Gary A. Phillips, 1990	Paperback
Semeia 50: Paraenesis: Act and Form edited by John Gammie and Leo G. Perdue, 1990	Paperback
Semeia 49: The Apocryphal Jesus and Christian Origins edited by Ron Cameron, 1990	Paperback
Semeia 48: Reader Perspectives on the New Testament edited by Edgar V. McKnight, 1989	Paperback
Semeia 47: Interpretation for Liberation edited by Katie Geneva Cannon and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, 1989	Paperback
Semeia 46: Narrative Research on the Hebrew Bible edited by Miri Amihai, George W. Coats, and Anne M. Solomon, 1989	Paperback
Semeia 45: Thinking Biblical Law edited by Dale Patrick, 1988	Paperback
Semeia 44: The Historical Jesus and the Rejected Gospels edited by Charles W. Hedrick, 1988	Paperback
Semeia 43: Genre, Narrativity, and Theology edited by Mary Gerhart and James G. Williams, 1988	Paperback
Semeia 42: Reasoning with the Foxes: Female Wit in a World of Male Power edited by Johanna W. H. Bos and J. Cheryl Exum, 1988	Paperback
Semeia 41: Speech Act Theory and Biblical Criticism edited by Hugh C. White, 1987	Paperback
Semeia 40: Text and Textuality edited by Charles E. Winquist, 1987	Paperback
Semeia 39: Orality, Aurality and Biblical Narrative edited by Lou H. Silberman, 1986	Paperback
Semeia 38: Apocryphal Acts of Apostles edited by Dennis R. MacDonald, 1986	Paperback
Semeia 37: Social-Scientific Criticism of the Hebrew Bible and Its Social World: The Israelite Monarchy edited by Norman K. Gottwald, 1986	Paperback
Semeia 36: Early Christian Apocalypticism: Genre and Social Setting edited by Adela Yarbro Collins, 1986	Paperback
Semeia 35: Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament and Its Social World edited by John H. Elliott, 1986	Paperback
Semeia 34: Biblical Hermeneutics in Jewish Moral Discourse edited by Peter J. Haas, 1985	Paperback
Semeia 33: Rene Girard and Biblical Studies edited by Andrew J. McKenna, 1985	Paperback
Semeia 32: Tragedy and Comedy in the Bible edited by J. Cheryl Exum, 1984	Paperback
Semeia 31: Reader Response Approaches to Biblical and Secular Texts edited by Robert Detweiler, 1985	Paperback
Semeia 30: Christology and Exegesis: New Approaches edited by Robert Jewett, 1984
Semeia 29: Kingdom and Children: Aphorism, Chreia, Structure edited by Daniel Patte, 1983	Paperback
Semeia 28: The Bible and Feminist Hermeneutics edited by Mary Ann Tolbert, 1983
Semeia 27: Law as Literature edited by William S. Green, 1983	Paperback
Semeia 26: Narrative Discourse in Structural Exegesis: John 6 and I Thessalonians edited by Daniel Patte, 1983	Paperback
Semeia 25: Julius Wellhausen and His Prolegomena to the History of Israel edited by Douglas A. Knight, 1982	Paperback
Semeia 24: Old Testament Interpretation from a Process Perspective edited by William A. Beardslee and David J. Lull, 1982	Paperback
Semeia 23: Derrida and Biblical Studies edited by Robert Detweiler, 1982
Semeia 22: Studies in Ancient Letter Writing edited by John L. White, 1981	Paperback
Semeia 21: Anthropological Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy edited by Robert C. Culley and Thomas W. Overholt, 1981	Paperback
Semeia 20: Pronouncement Stories edited by Robert C. Tannehill, 1981	Paperback
Semeia 19: The Book of Job and Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics edited by John Dominic Crossan, 1981	Paperback
Semeia 18: Genesis 2 and 3, Kaleidoscopic Structural Readings edited by Daniel Patte, 1980
Semeia 17: Gnomic Wisdom edited by John Dominic Crossan, 1980
Semeia 16: Perspectives on Mark’s Gospel edited by Norman R. Petersen, 1979
Semeia 15: Perspectives on Old Testament Narrative edited by Robert C. Culley, 1979
Semeia 14: Apocalypse: The Morphology of a Genre edited by John Joseph Collins, 1979	Paperback
Semeia 13: The Poetics of Faith, Part 2: Imagination, Rhetoric, and the Disclosures of Faith edited by William A. Beardslee, 1978
Semeia 12: The Poetics of Faith, Part 1: Rhetoric, Eschatology, and Ethics in the New Testament edited by William A. Beardslee, 1978
Semeia 11: Early Christian Miracle Stories edited by Robert W. Funk, 1978
Semeia 10: Narrative Syntax: Translation and Reviews edited by John Dominic Crossan, 1976
Semeia 9: Polyvalent Narration edited by John Dominic Crossan, 1977
Semeia 8: Literary Critical Studies of Biblical Texts edited by Robert W. Funk, 1977
Semeia 7: Studies in the Book of Job edited by David A. Robertson and Robert Polzin, 1977
Semeia 6: Erhardt Guttgemanns’ Generative Poetics edited by William G. Doty; translated by Norman R. Petersen, 1976	Paperback
Semeia 5: Oral Tradition and Old Testament Studies edited by Robert C. Culley, 1976
Semeia 4: Paul Ricoeur on Biblical Hermeneutics edited by John Dominic Crossan, 1975
Semeia 3: Classical Hebrew Narrative edited by Robert C. Culley, 1975
Semeia 2: The Good Samaritan edited by John Dominic Crossan, 1973
Semeia 1: A Structuralist Approach to the Parables edited by Robert W. Funk, 1972	Paperback