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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...

three texts of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 2–3; Proverbs 9; 1 Samuel 25) where the decision to eat or not to eat is of such life and death consequence that it is immediately apparent that food is more than the stuff of feeding bodily functions. 0.2 Texts do not speak in isolation, but are constantly adding to each other’s conversations, passing on a semiotic chain that moves through the canon. So that while I have chosen to intrude on a three-way interchange these chosen three immediately urge me out
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