We're finally gonna talk about cannibalism and The ChurchTM...but probably not in the way you expect! Justin from the librarypunk podcast joins us to discuss such things as the existential paranoias of 2nd century Christians, whatever happened to Jesus' foreskin, and the reason gay sex is so cosmologically threatening.

Articles and books mentioned:

Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Revised and Expanded Edition. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Douglas, Mary. Leviticus As Literature. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch. Second revised ed. Autonomedia, 2014.

McGowan, Andrew. "Eating People: Accusations of Cannibalism Against Christians in the Second Century." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 2 no. 4, 1994, p. 413-442. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.0.0202.

Moss, Candida R. "Infant Exposure and the Rhetoric of Cannibalism, Incest, and Martyrdom in the Early Church." Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 29 no. 3, 2021, p. 341-369. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/earl.2021.0023.

Listen to Justin (and Jay!) on the librarypunk podcast, wherever fine podcasts are distributed. You can find them at librarypunk.gay, or on Bluesky and Twitter @librarypunk.

Follow us on Twitter @tender_subject and on Instagram @tendersubjectpod

We're also on Bluesky @tendersubject.bsky.social

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops