Coming Back to Life

Meredith Warren
University of Sheffield

Meredith Warren is lecturer in biblical and religious studies at the University of Sheffield, where she leads the Embodied Religion research theme. She primarily researches the symbolic role of food, eating, and the sense of taste in the religions of antiquity. Her first book, My Flesh is Meat Indeed: A Nonsacramental Reading of John 6:51–58 (Fortress, 2015), examined the interplay of eating and divinification in the Gospel of John and ancient Greek novels. Her forthcoming monograph, Hierophagy: Transformational Eating in Ancient Literature, explores how taste and eating allow access to other worlds.