From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 16:39:04 EDT
At 09:06 PM 6/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
>On a purely practical level, I find it hard to see how OINOS could be
>unfermented grape juice, at least for more than a few hours - grapes have a
>very high sugar content and grape skins carry their own yeast. In a
>Mediterranean climate, before the advent of modern cooling techniques,
>fermentation would surely have occurred naturally and rapidly
the whole notion arises because some think it wrong to put a slathering of
wine on the tea-totalling lips of jesus. so, in an efort to remove the vile
vine from the blessed saviour's sacred lips, the wine is turned into water
(in a sense). to support this really incredible and impossible supposition,
exegesis has to make oinos into grapejuice whilst oinou remains wine. i.e.,
if i recall the argument correctly, in the nominative the word means juice
and in the genitive it means wine (or vice versa).
such gymnastics betray a woeful and unlearned attitude towards first century
palestinian life.
Jim
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