Transformational Eating and Ancient Mediterranean Literature

John 6 is one of these strange passages that no one quite agrees what to do with. I think when you have texts where there's such profound disagreement and scholarship, then it gives me a clue as to why people are arguing about this passage so much. So today we're talking about eight weird verses in John 6,. But can you tell us what led you to writing your doctoral dissertation on this one passage? Why were you interested in it?