Mo Pareles
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mo Pareles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mo |
| FAMILY NAME | Pareles |
| SIGNATURE | PARELES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-3203-9309 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cannibal Maria in the Siege of Jerusalem
This essay traces the far-reaching legend of Maria/Miriam of Bethezuba, sometimes called Mary, Marie, or Marion, a starving Jewish woman who (according to Flavius Josephus'sThe Jewish War) ate her own baby during the 70 CE Roman Siege of Jerusalem. This episode of maternal infanticide and cannibalism under occupation is the culmination of Biblical curses and prophecies, a complicated reference to the Eucharist, and an emblem of Jewish (women's) s…
Jewish heterosexuality, queer celibacy? Ælfric translates the Old Testament priesthood
Men as Meat
Ælfric’s Old English homiletic-hagiographical translation of Maccabees, “Passio Machabeorum,” manifests the unique problems and opportunities presented by Old Testament food taboos to early medieval English Christianity. Taking up Giorgio Agamben’s observation that the division between human and animal life occurs within the human as a condition of human possibility (an observation he extends analogously to Christians and Jews) and Kenneth R. Sto…
Men as Meat
Ælfric’s Old English homiletic-hagiographical translation of Maccabees, “Passio Machabeorum,” manifests the unique problems and opportunities presented by Old Testament food taboos to early medieval English Christianity. Taking up Giorgio Agamben’s observation that the division between human and animal life occurs within the human as a condition of human possibility (an observation he extends analogously to Christians and Jews) and Kenneth R. Sto…
Men as Meat
Ælfric’s Old English homiletic-hagiographical translation of Maccabees, “Passio Machabeorum,” manifests the unique problems and opportunities presented by Old Testament food taboos to early medieval English Christianity. Taking up Giorgio Agamben’s observation that the division between human and animal life occurs within the human as a condition of human possibility (an observation he extends analogously to Christians and Jews) and Kenneth R. Sto…
Jewish heterosexuality, queer celibacy? Ælfric translates the Old Testament priesthood
Cannibal Maria in the Siege of Jerusalem
This essay traces the far-reaching legend of Maria/Miriam of Bethezuba, sometimes called Mary, Marie, or Marion, a starving Jewish woman who (according to Flavius Josephus'sThe Jewish War) ate her own baby during the 70 CE Roman Siege of Jerusalem. This episode of maternal infanticide and cannibalism under occupation is the culmination of Biblical curses and prophecies, a complicated reference to the Eucharist, and an emblem of Jewish (women's) s…
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