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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...

Someone, namely God, is decreeing that such gift of wisdom implied in the description of the knowledge of good and evil is not for humans. Ask again the question, what is food, and the answer here would appear to be the signifier of the distinction between human and divine, the boundary setter.1 But this food which separates the Us, the gods/God, from the You, humankind, not only sets a boundary but has within it the power to kill the very life force which distinguishes the human from the lifeless
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