“What above or below earth has possessed him to write about cannibalism,” I bet you’re thinking. A dearth of topics on the subject relating to antiquity. That’s what.
The word itself comes from the islanders of Carib (and thus is related to Caribbean). The Greeks themselves used the word anthropophagy, or androphagy, for cannibalistic humans. They […]
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I had been unaware of yet another critical edition of the Hebrew Bible (apart from Biblia Hebraica Quinta), so I was particularly excited about seeing the release of the Oxford Hebrew Bible in the latest Vetus Testamentum (58.3, 2008):
R. Hendel, “The Oxford Hebrew Bible: Prologue to a New Critical Edition”
S. White Crawford, J. Joosten, and […]
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