Noah's wine
Noah's wine is a colloquial allusion meaning
Definition and origin
In the
There is debate as to whether certain references to wine in the Bible are actually to a non-intoxicating substance, but, at least in this passage, the Bible states Noah became drunk (Hebrew: ישכר yiškār) after consuming wine (יין yayin).[8] It has been suggested that Noah's wine must have been drugged as it could not have been strong enough to cause him to become intoxicated.[9] Rabbinic literature goes as far as to suggest that the grape vine-branch had its origins with Adam, and that Satan, along with fertilization using animal blood, played a part in the production of the wine. It blames those factors (especially the latter two) for the aforementioned potency of the wine.[10][2]
From a biblical view,
Description and usage
A journal, at the end of the nineteenth century published the following: "Man has been defined, perhaps somewhat crudely, says Food and Cookery, as an animal that prefers a properly cooked meal to raw food, and Noah's wine to Adam's ale."[12]
A work criticizing drunkenness from 1899 states:
Noah survived one flood, only to be the source of another; a flood that for its disastrous results and heartrending consequences has outrivaled the flood of his preserver, for the sparkling, crimson fluid from Noah's wine press has ... [been the cause] of misery [for] millions of helpless, struggling, pitiful human objects, carrying them on and on to an ocean of woe—to a deep, dark sea of oblivion.[16]
See also
- Adam's ale – a term that refers to water
- Noah's Ark – the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative
- Alcohol in the Bible
- Drink portal
References
- ISBN 978-0715632239.
- ^ ISBN 978-1172715954.
- ^ Genesis 1–6
- ^ Genesis 9:20, Genesis 9:21
- ISBN 978-1130586275.
- ISBN 0-8028-3634-8.
- ISBN 0-8054-0101-6.
- ISBN 978-1277283877.
- ISBN 978-1287406723.
- ^
Two sources for Noah's entry in The Jewish Encyclopedia:
- Singer, Isidore, ed. (1905). "A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. Funk and Wagnalls Co. p. 321, NOAH.- In Apocryphal and Rabbinical Literature: His Lapse. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- "Noah - Jewish Encyclopedia.com". JewishEncyclopedia.com 2002. 1901. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- ^ ISBN 978-1475252194.
- ^ Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, Volume 15. The Gazette Publishing Co. 1899. p. 332.
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- ^ Garnett, David (1964). Two by two: a story of survival. Longmans. p. 10.
- ISBN 978-0199552337.
- ISBN 978-1173760885.