Dr Meredith Warren
School of English
Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, Director of the 含羞草传媒 Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies.
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I am Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies and the Director of the 含羞草传媒 Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. I am a , originally from Canada; I moved to 含羞草传媒 in 2015. Currently my research areas include gender; the senses; anti-Semitism; and apocalyptic literature.
- Research interests
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My primary research interests include the use of food and the sense of taste in biblical texts, especially in the New Testament and non-canonical literature. I have published on eating flesh and drinking blood in the Gospel of John, the use of wine libations in the Book of Revelation, and the ingesting of honeycomb in Joseph and Aseneth. I just co-authored the first textbook dedicated to , which was published by Routledge in 2022.
My most recent monograph, Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature, identifies and defines a new genre in ancient texts that I term hierophagy, a specific type of transformational eating where other-worldly things are consumed and which cause the eater to become associated with the heavenly realm. My first book, My Flesh Is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51鈥58, examined Jesus鈥 commandment to consume his flesh and blood in the context of fictional accounts of human sacrifice.
My current research investigates the use of 鈥榯aste鈥 in metaphors for death in ancient Jewish, Christian, and other literature.
I am the Director of the 含羞草传媒 Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies; I also edit the SCIBS book series published with 含羞草传媒 Phoenix Press, and am co-editor in chief of the .
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Books
- Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press.
- My Flesh Is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51-58. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
- . Routledge.
Edited books
- Good Omens and the Bible. 含羞草传媒: 含羞草传媒 Phoenix Press.
- The Ties that Bind: Negotiating Relationships in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, Contexts, and Reception History. London: T&T Clark.
Journal articles
- . Modern Believing, 64(2), 163-226.
- . Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus: Jesus in History, Culture and Media, 20(3), 179-191.
- . Journal of Ancient Judaism.
- Five husbands: slut-shaming the Samaritan woman. Bible and Critical Theory, 17(2), 51-70.
- . Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, 2(1), 81-106.
- . Religions, 9(12), 413-413.
- . Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 40(1), 101-119.
- . Journal for Teaching Theology and Religion, 19(3), 309-319.
- . Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses September, 3(44), 321-333.
- Rape Jokes, Sexual Violence, and Empire in Revelation and This Is The End. The Journal of Religion and Film.
Chapters
- Wine, Dine, and Bind: Sacrificial Food and Community Formation in Asia Minor In Warren M, Kobel E & Brant J-A (Ed.), The Ties that Bind
Negotiating Relationships in Early Jewish and Christian Texts, Contexts, and Reception History T&T Clark
- Slut Shaming the Samaritan Woman In Vanden Eykel E & Cobb C (Ed.), Sex, Violence and Early Christian Texts Fortress Lexington
- In Koltun-Fromm N & Kessler G (Ed.), A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism: Third Century BCE To Seventh Century CE (pp. 405-424). Wiley-Blackwell
- 鈥淲hen the Christ Appears, Will He Do More Signs Than This Man Has Done?鈥 (John 7:31): Signs and the Messiah in the Gospel of John In Reynolds B & Boccaccini G (Ed.), Reading the Gospel of John鈥檚 Christology as Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs (pp. 229-247). Leiden: Brill.
- Human and Divine Justice in the Testament of Abraham In DiTommaso L, Henze M & Adler W (Ed.), The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
- , Taste and the Ancient Senses (pp. 104-119).
- Equal to God: Jesus鈥 Crucifixion and Sacrificial Scheintod In Tappenden F & Daniel-Hughes C (Ed.), Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean McGill University Library and Archives
- Seven Seals, Seven Trumpets, Seven Bowls, End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions (pp. 321-325).
- A robe like lightning: Clothing changes and identification in Joseph and aseneth, Dressing Judeans and Christians in Antiquity (pp. 137-153).
- Indigenous Apocalypticism in the Time of the Seventh Fire In Murphy K & Jeffcoat Schedtler J (Ed.), Apocalypses in Contexts: Apocalyptic Currents Through History Fortress Press
- The Flesh Made Word: Transculturality, Memory, and History in the Gospel of John In Anderson PN, Thatcher T & Just, SJ F (Ed.), John, Jesus, and History Vol 4: Jesus Remembered in the Johannine Situation Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature.
- Bodily Transformation In Maier H, Wendt H & Urciuoli ER (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook to the New Testament and the Roman Empire
Website content
- Students Think Better with Thinking Pieces: Why You Should Consider Using Low-Stakes Writing Assignments in Your Class.
- Food and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press.
- Research group
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I welcome PhD applicants who are interested in researching embodiment in biblical and/or ancient texts; any aspect of early Judaism and/or early Christianity; the Book of Revelation; the Gospel of John; sensory theory; the Bible and science fiction; or other projects engaging with biblical or classical literature in its ancient or contemporary contexts.
- Teaching activities
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Undergraduate:
- LIT113 Foundations in Literary Study: Biblical and Classical Sources in English
- LIT272 Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible
- EGH31007: The End of the World
MA:
- The Sacred and the Sexual: Gender, Sex, and the Bible