You're listening to the Bible for Normal People, the only God-ordained podcast on the internet.

I'm Pete Ends, and I'm Jared Bias.

Well, hello wonderful listeners.

Welcome to this episode of the podcast, and our topic today is Meredith Warren-Ruin's

John VI, and our guest is Meredith J. C. Warren.

She is a senior lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies at the University of Sheffield,

and the Director of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Yeah, and she wrote a couple of books, and you may want to go back after you listen to

this and write these down, because we cover so much.

The book that is most directly related to what we talk about today is called My Flesh

is Meet Indeed from 2015, but she also has a book she mentions from 2019 called Food

and Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Literature, which I think would paint a broader

picture if you want to get real nerdy about it of what we talk about today.

So we are doing a deep dive today into John chapter 6, verses 51 to 58.

So we thought rather than perhaps causing some wrecks and a lot of other things where

people are trying to open their Bibles before they listen, even though they're driving,

which we always say don't do, but you know people do it anyway.

So anyway, we're going to read this passage here as we get started, just so everyone starts

with an understanding of what we're going to talk about, because then we jump into the

weeds pretty quickly.

I don't know, I feel like we're in church.

Yeah, that's okay.

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