Semeia: An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism (91 Issues)

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SEMEIA 86: Food and Drink in the Biblical Worlds 

Our Menu and What Is Not On It: Editors’ Introduction — Athalya Brenner and Jan Willem van Henten

PART I. FOOD PRODUCTION AND MARKETING

1. “Oil from Flinty Rock” (Deuteronomy 32:13): Olive Cultivation and Olive Oil Processing in the Hebrew Bible—A Socio-materialist Perspective  — Frank S. Frick
2. Treading the Winepress: Actual and Metaphorical Viticulture in the Ancient Near East — Victor H. Matthews
3. Luke’s Market Exchange District: Decentering Luke’s Rich Urban Center — Jim Grimshaw

PART II. SEDUCTIVE MENUS

4. From Queen to Cuisine: Food Imagery in the Jezebel Narrative — Deborah A. Appler
5. To Eat or Not to Eat: Where is Wisdom in this Choice? — Judith E. McKinlay
6. Salome and Jesus at Table in the Gospel of Thomas — Kathleen E. Corley

PART III. IMAGINATIVE FOODS

7. The Food of Love: Gendered Food and Food Imagery in the Song of Songs — Athalya Brenner
8. YHWH’s Sour Grapes: Images of Food and Drink in the Prophetic Discourses of the Hebrew Bible — Robert P. Carroll

PART IV. ON NOT-EATING

9. When Fathers Refuse to Eat: The Trope of Rejecting Food and Drink in Biblical Narrative — Diane M. Sharon

PART V. FOOD AS A SOCIAL MARKER

10. Food, Drink and Sects: The Question of Ingestion in the Qumran Texts — Philip R. Davies
11. “Not by Bread Alone . . .”: The Ritualization of Food and Table Talk in the Passover Seder and in the Last Supper — Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus
12. Jewish Food Laws in Early Christian Community Discourse — Peter J. Tomson

PART VI. RESPONSES

13. Eating Their Words — Alice Bach
14. A Question of Theory or Experimentality — Daniel Boyarin
15. Reflections on Table Fellowship and Community Identity — Adele Reinhartz

SEMEIA 87: The Social World of the Hebrew Bible: Twenty-Five Years of the Social Sciences in the Academy

Introduction: Case Studies from the Second Wave of Research in the Social World of the Hebrew Bible — Stephen L. Cook and Ronald A. Simkins

CASE STUDIES

1. Ancient Perceptions of Space/Perceptions of Ancient Space — James W. Flanagan
2. In the Shadow of Cain — Paula M. McNutt 
3. The Gift in Ancient Israel — Gary Stansell 
4. The Unwanted Gift: Implications of Obligatory Gift Giving in Ancient Israel — Victor H. Matthews 
5. Whose Sour Grapes? The Addressees of Isaiah 5:1–7 in the Light of Political Economy — Marvin L. Chaney
6. Patronage and the Political Economy of Monarchic Israel — Ronald A. Simkins 
7. The Lineage Roots of Hosea’s Yahwism — Stephen L. Cook 
8. To Shame or Not to Shame: Sexuality in the Mediterranean Diaspora — Susan A. Brayford 
9. Gender, Class, and the Social-Scientific Study of Genesis 2–3 — Gale A. Yee 
10. Ideology, Pierre Bourdieu’s Doxa, and the Hebrew Bible — Jacques Berlinerblau
11. Confronting Redundancy As Middle Manager and Wife: The Feisty Woman of Genesis 39 — Heather A. McKay

RESPONSES

12. Reconstructing Ancient Israel’s Social World — Frank S. Frick
13. Twenty-Five Years and Counting — Norman K. Gottwald

Semeia 89: Northrop Frye and the Afterlife of the Word

Introduction — James M. Kee

ESSAYS

1. Northrop Frye between Archetype and Typology — Robert Alter 
2. Towards Reconciling the Solitudes — Joe Velaidum
3. “The Humanized God”: Biblical Paradigms of Recognition in Frye's Final Three Books — David Gay 
4. The Ashes of the Stars: Northrop Frye and the Trickster-God — Michael Dolzani 
5. Northrop Frye and the Poetry in Biblical Hermeneutics — James M. Kee 
6. Early Modern Women’s Words with Power: Absence and Presence — Patricia Demers
7. From Archetype to Antitype: A Look at Frygian Archetypology — Margaret Burgess 
8. Modeling Biblical Narrative: Frye and D. H. Lawrence — William Robins

RESPONSES

9. Biblical Studies on a More Capacious Canvas: A Response to Joe Velaidum and James M. Kee — David Jobling
10. Reconfiguring the Liberal Imagination: A Response to Margaret Burgess, Patricia Demers, and William Robins — J. Russell Perkin 
11. The “Something More” in the Bible: A Response to Robert Alter, David Gay, and Michael Dolzani — Robert Cording