{"id":133267,"date":"2017-04-14T06:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/14\/what-would-jesus-drink.html"},"modified":"2017-04-14T06:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T12:41:14","slug":"what-would-jesus-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/14\/what-would-jesus-drink.html","title":{"rendered":"What Would Jesus Drink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From what we know of Greek and Roman wine, as well as archaeological evidence &#8230; probably not anything that would do well commercially today in the US. And bear in mind that not only was this wine watered (almost by necessity), but the quality control was likely not all that great.<\/p>\n<p>But it was still probably better than the water.<\/p>\n<p>(If you like this article, I also recommend Tom Standage, A HIstory of the World in 6 Glasses, which focuses on emblematic beverages over the millennia, and how they affected trade and technology.)<\/p>\n<p>[h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108631503120169701251\" oid=\"108631503120169701251\">John E. Bredehoft<\/a><\/span>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/vinepair.com\/wine-geekly\/what-wine-would-jesus-drink\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/WEvasyUALeHmDh_euBxvyHfaGmQzTD3lqDMutJ3iYGHKzbDsp-m0F2MjbxwQ0Tmr_fwstg2c8EWUczaKU4t0hTB61DDASyoC8i_I7VAMrw8=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/vinepair.com\/wine-geekly\/what-wine-would-jesus-drink\/'>What Wine Would Jesus Drink?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWine plays a central role in the Biblical narratives. So what kind of wine were they drinking? We can&#8217;t know for sure, but we can guess how it tasted\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/igwv4DNUqmi'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From what we know of Greek and Roman wine, as well as archaeological evidence &#8230; probably not anything that would do well commercially today in the US. And bear in mind that not only was this wine watered (almost by necessity), but the quality control was likely not all that great. But it was still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/14\/what-would-jesus-drink.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Would Jesus Drink?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34996,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/cork-vs-synthetic-vs-screw-top.html","url_meta":{"origin":133267,"position":0},"title":"Cork vs Synthetic vs Screw Top","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-May-13 2:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The arguments over the different tops tend to get fairly esoteric near the edges (are cork farms damaging to the ecology? does the slight seep of oxygen past cork helpful? are people killing themselves with corkscrews and foil knives?). 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