“Most traditional forms of alcohol are made for immediate consumption”
Most traditional forms of alcohol are made for immediate consumption: They will spoil within...
Category Archives: Alcoholic Drinks
“The origins of alcohol distillation are still somewhat obscure”
The origins of alcohol distillation are still somewhat obscure. Greeks in Alexandria had already...
“Unlike its role in other societies, wine eventually replaced beer and other drinks altogether among Greeks (except Spartans), Etruscans, and Romans of all social classes”
In Europe, credible evidence for alcoholic beverages, especially drinking vessels in funerary contexts, dates...
Alcohol “constitutes an especially revealing focus of analysis for anthropologists and historians”
In brief, alcoholic drinks are not simply reducible to a uniform chemical substance with...
“…alcohol has often acquired the additional stigma of being associated with traditional ritual practices and the power of what missionaries view as pagan superstition and prior networks of communal identity”
…some Protestant Christian sects depict alcohol as an evil and dangerous substance that defiles...
Whereas barley beer and beer goddesses reigned supreme in the lowlands of Egypt and Mesopotamia, wine was the preferred fermented beverage in the upland regions of the southern Levant. The Holy Land is where two of the world’s major religions – Judaism and Christianity – originated, and their holy writings (“scriptures”) are a testament to the centrality of wine in faith and practice.
Whereas barley beer and beer goddesses reigned supreme in the lowlands of Egypt and...
“I, like many who enjoy an adult beverage then and again, have to ask myself fairly regularly about my relationship with it. Is it healthy? Is it proper?”
I, like many who enjoy an adult beverage then and again, have to ask...
The Phrase משתה in the Book of Esther
Many English versions translate משתה generally as either “feast” (e.g., ESV, KJV, NKJV) or...
“…the Israelites departed from Egypt, a country where this bread-beer was the only obtainable or national alcoholic luxury, to the land flowing with milk, honey, and wine…”
…the Israelites departed from Egypt, a country where this bread-beer was the only obtainable...
“…the words in Exodus xii. 19, “that which is leavened,” which in Hebrew are rendered מַחְמֶצֶת, or machmetzeth, was a beer similar to the modern Egyptian paste or bread beer…”
…I contend that the words in Exodus xii. 19, “that which is leavened,” which...