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Semeia 86: Food and Drink in the Biblical World 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...

for upholding God’s law in Israel, is wining and dining the prophets of Baal and Asherah and promoting the Canaanite god Baal within the territory of Israel (1 Kgs 18:19). Furthermore, Jezebel’s name, which means “where is Baal” (a common liturgical chant in the cult of Baal, Coogan: 84) leaves little doubt as to where Jezebel’s devotion lies. The luxurious meals that Jezebel shares with the prophets of Asherah and Baal appear tasteless when placed in the context of the famine. They signal Ahab’s
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