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Read MoreSBL 2019 Review Panel | Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature
Depiction of Rev 10:8-11, Trinity Apocalypse, ca. 1250; the James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts, Trinity College Cambridge.
Depiction of Rev 10:8-11, Trinity Apocalypse, ca. 1250; the James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts, Trinity College Cambridge.
Hierophagy is the word I chose to describe this genre of transformational eating. I define hierophagy as a mechanism by which characters in narrative cross boundaries from one realm to another through ingesting some item from that other realm.
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In other words, if transformational eating like hierophagy is something that ancient authors took for granted, why is it that eating or tasting other-worldly food has such a profound effect?
Read MoreBook Note | Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity
Katherine Shaner’s book is a careful and rigorous examination of the extent of enslaved leadership in antiquity as well as the prevalence of scholarly erasure of that leadership.
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