So, cannibalism wasn’t enough… No, the inhabitants of Jerusalem turned to something else…
They also invented terrible methods of torments to discover where any food was, and they were these: to stop up the passages of the privy parts of the miserable wretches, and to drive sharp stakes up their anus; and a man was forced to bear what it is terrible even to hear, in order to make him confess that he had but one loaf of bread, or that he might reveal a handful of barley meal that was concealed; and this was done when these tormentors were not themselves hungry; for the thing had been less barbarous had necessity forced them to it; but this was done to keep their madness in exercise, and as making preparation of provisions for themselves for the following days. (Jwr 5:435-436)
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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Worse, “…she slew her son; and then roasted him, and ate the one half of him, and kept the other half by her concealed”. However, perhaps shouldn’t be filed under the tag “HUMOR”, at least not on a Christian web page.