Wine

David Luckensmeyer DHLUCKENSMEYER at Bigpond.com
Tue Jun 13 21:32:19 EDT 2000


Jim West wrote:

>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.


These are exactly the sort of statements for which others on this list get
in trouble. Rather than deal directly with the text, it seems that the
discussion has degenerated to sarcastic attacks upon theological
positions...??

Respectfully,

David Luckensmeyer, BSc, BA (Hons)
PhD Candidate
Department of Studies in Religion
University of Queensland
AUSTRALIA
DHLUCKENSMEYER at Bigpond.com




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