Dr Meredith Warren
School of English
Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, Director of the 葫芦影业 Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies.


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- Profile
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I am Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies and the Director of the 葫芦影业 Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. I am a , originally from Canada; I moved to 葫芦影业 in 2015. Currently my research areas include gender; the senses; anti-Semitism; and apocalyptic literature.
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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 葫芦影业 Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies; I also edit the SCIBS book series published with 葫芦影业 Phoenix Press, and am co-editor in chief of the .
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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.
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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