Meredith J. C. Warren (born in

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) is a Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies at the

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.. She is known for her views on the

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and early

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as well as for her media appearances for such outlets as ''

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'', and

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radio. She is a

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citizen of the Manitoba Metis Federation.

Education and career

Warren obtained her

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(2004) and

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(2006) from

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. She earned a

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in 2013 from McGill in

religious studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...

, specializing in New Testament, early Judaism, and ancient Mediterranean religions. She was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fonds de recherche du Québec, before taking her position at Sheffield University, where she directs the Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies and is editor in chief of its flagship journal, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. She serves as an associate editor for the Enoch Seminar Online Reviews. Warren's scholarly publications include several books and articles on Jesus, food, gender, anti-Judaism, feminism, the senses, and clothing in early Christianity and early Judaism. Warren has contributed to ''

'' and

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on the subject of the

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. She has been interviewed by

Radio and the Star on the New Testament and

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. She also gave interviews on

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and to

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about the changes to the Lord's Prayer in 2019. Warren served as an adjunct professor of Religious Studies at

from 2007 to 2015. In 2015 she was appointed as a lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies at the

's Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies. Warren was honored with a Senate Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching by the University of Sheffield in 2019. In 2020 she was elected to the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (Society of New Testament Studies). Her co-authored textbook, Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean, won the Frank W. Beare Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies in 2023.

Works

Books

*Warren, Meredith, Sara Parks, and Shayna Sheinfeld (2022). ''Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean''. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781138543782 * *

Journal articles

* ———. (2020) ""Confronting Judeophobia in the Classroom," with Sarah E. Rollens and Eric Vanden Eykel. ''Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies'
2.1
81–106. * ———. (2018) "The Cup of God’s Wrath: Libation in Revelation and Early Christian Meal Practice" ''Religions'' 9.413. Special Issue: Sacrifice and Religion; Daniel Ullucci, ed. *———. (2017) "Tasting the Little Scroll: A Sensory Analysis of Divine Interaction in Revelation 10:8–10." ''Journal for the Study of the New Testament'' 40.1: 101–119. * * *

Book chapters

* ———. (2020) "Domestic Spaces in Late Ancient Judaism" in
A Companion to Late Ancient Judaism
'' Naomi Koltun-Fromm and Gwynn Kessler, eds.; Wiley-Blackwell Press. * ———. (2018) "‘When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?’ (John 7:31): Signs and the Messiah in the Gospel of John" in ''Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as a Form of Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs.'' Benjamin Reynolds and Gabriele Boccaccini, eds.; Leiden: Brill. Pp 229–247. *———. (2017) "Human and Divine Justice in the Testament of Abraham" in ''The Embroidered Bible: Studies in Biblical Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Honour of Michael E. Stone''. Edited by Lorenzo DiTommaso, Matthias Henze, and William Adler. Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha; Leiden: E.J. Brill. *———. (2017) "Tastes from Beyond: Persephone’s Pomegranate and Otherworldly Consumption in Antiquity" in ''Taste and the Ancient Senses.'' The Senses in Antiquity; Kelli C. Rudolph, ed; Routledge Press. *

Dictionary, Lexicon, and Encyclopedia Entries

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References

External links

Meredith Warren's Academia.edu Page
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Meredith Warren's Staff Profile for the University of Sheffield "Cannibalism in the Christian Imagination,"
Lecture at

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, 2014
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