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  • From: "Bill Ross" <BillRoss AT norisksoftware.com>
  • To: "'Trevor Peterson'" <06PETERSON AT cua.edu>, "'Biblical Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Alcoholic Beverages in BH
  • Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:44:32 -0500


Thanks, Trevor, that answered my questions - unless someone knows if
wine was considered brain food.


Bill Ross
BillRoss AT norisksoftware.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Peterson [mailto:06PETERSON AT cua.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:39 PM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: RE: Alcoholic Beverages in BH


>===== Original Message From Bill Ross <BillRoss AT norisksoftware.com>
>===== <Bill> I've been reading Daniel and was struck that
>Nebuchadnezzar seemed to think that a good leader ought to have a
>steady diet of wine. Does anyone know if this was considered a drink
>that gave political insight?
>
>Did Daniel object because it was wine or because it was the king's
>special wine, or some other reason?

I wouldn't be surprised if the point is that it wasn't kosher wine. This
would
probably be the same issue with the meat. It's a fairly common recourse
of
observant Jews to eat vegetarian when there's no reason to think that
the food
they're being offered is kosher.
>
>Also, what nuances might be present in the phrase "daily provision?"
>
>Daniel 1:5 And the king appointed them a *daily provision* of the
>king's meat, and of *the wine which he drank*: so nourishing them three

>years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. {the
>wine.: Heb. the wine of his drink}

They ate regularly, like most people? Did you have something else in
mind? You
can't really stockpile meat, BTW, in a culture without
refrigeration--not raw
meat, anyway. So you'd pretty much have to distribute it daily.

Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics


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