Reaching for the Tree of Life: The Role of Eating, Drinking, Fasting, and Symbolic Foodstuffs in 4 Ezra

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Reaching for the Tree of Life: The Role of Eating, Drinking, Fasting, and Symbolic Foodstuffs in 4 Ezra
 
Smit, P.B.A.
(2014) Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman period, volume 45, issue 3, pp. 366 - 387
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Abstract
This paper considers the role of foodstuffs and their (non-)consumption in 4 Ezra. While foodstuffs figure prominently in 4 Ezra, no prior research has been conducted on food and 4 Ezra. The paper argues that both the narrative progression of the work and significant parts of 4 Ezra are expressed ... read more
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Keywords: food, fasting, tree of life, meals, 4 Ezra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12340056
ISSN: 0047-2212
Publisher: Brill
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