Semeia 86: Food and Drink in the Biblical World
Overview
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 publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“You’ shall not eat of it, i.e. this food is not good ‘for you.’” (Page 74)
“ which no longer acts as a boundary setter, and potentially deathly for humans, but is now an agent of transformation” (Page 75)
“Ahab is more concerned about the welfare of his horses and mules than his own people. He has forsaken his God—given responsibilities as king over Israel.” (Page 58)
“Salome is a well-known figure in early Christian literature, and is the second most frequently mentioned female disciple of Jesus next to Mary Magdalene.” (Page 87)
“‘bread’ and, by extension, ‘food in general,’ while the nominally derived Qal verb, as in Prov 4:17; 9:5; 23:1, 6, designates ‘eating food.’” (Page x)
- Deborah Appler
- Alice Bach
- Daniel Boyarin
- Athalya Brenner
- Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus
- Robert P. Carroll
- Kathleen Corley
- Philip R. Davies
- Frank S. Frick
- Jim Grimshaw
- Jan Willem van Henten
- Victor H. Matthews
- Judith McKinlay
- Adele Reinhartz
- Diane Sharon
- Peter J. Tomson
- Title: Semeia 86: Food and Drink in the Biblical World
- Editors: Athalya Brenner and Jan Willem van Heuter
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 2001
- Pages: 265
Athalya Brenner is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam.
