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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...

Its Web presentation includes a comprehensive syllabus and a comprehensive bibliography. It is quite clear that, in that wonderful course, social and anthropological approaches have been incorporated. Again, however, “the ancient World” referred to is primarily the Greek/Roman world. On food and drink, eating and drinking in the worlds of the Bible so-called, focused works are not to be found. Of course, Greco-Roman practices may have relevance to the later biblical worlds, especially those of so-called
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