Under the Influence: Trust and Risk in Biblical Family Drinking

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Volumn 25, Issue 90, 2000, Pages 13-29

  Walsh, Carey Ellen ^a  

^a RHODES COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84992838906     PISSN: 03090892     EISSN: 14766728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030908920002509002     Document Type: Article

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1. John Bright, Jeremaiah (AB, 21; Garden City. NY: Doubleday, 1965).
2. Philip King, Jeremaiah: An Archaeological Companion (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993).
3. James Ross, ‘Wine’, IDB, IV. pp. 849–52.
4. P.J. King, ‘The Marzēaḥ Textual and Archaeological Evidence’, in Eretz-Israel 20.
5. A. Ben-Tor, J.C. Greenfield and A. Malamat [eds.], Yigael Yadiri Memoriol Volume [Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society, The Hebrew University, 1992].
6. Jonas Greenfield, ‘The Marzēaḥ as a Social Institution’, Acta Antiqua 22 (1974), pp. 451–55.
7. Marvin Pope, ‘A Divine Banquet at Ugarit’, in J. Efird (ed.), The Use of the Old Testament in the New and Other Essays (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1972), pp. 170–203.
8. John L. McLaughlin. ‘The Marzeah at Ugarit: A Textual and Contextual Study’, UF 23 (1991). pp. 265–81.
9. Theodore Lewis, ‘Banqueting Hall/House’, in ABD, I, pp. 581–82.
10. B. Porten, Archives From Elephantine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), pp. 179–86.
11. Vincenz Zapletal, Der Wein in der Bibel (Freiburg: Herder, 1920).
12. W. Burkert, ‘Oriental Symposia: Contrasts and Parallels’, in William Slater (ed.), Dining in a Clossical Context (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1991). pp. 7–21.
13. Magen Broshi, ‘Wine in Ancient Palestine: Introductory Notes’, Israel Museum Journal 3 (1984). pp. 21–40.
14. M.A. Amerine and V.L. Singleton, Wine: An Introduction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2nd edn, 1977), p. 326.
15. Gilgamesh 2.III.17-21.
16. Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford: Oxford University, 1989).
17. ‘Wine in Ancient Palestine’, p. 21.
18. M. Geenberg's article ‘Drunkenness’ mentions merely that it was a ‘disgrace’, in IDB, I, p. 872.
19. E.M. Jellinek, ‘The Symbolism of Drinking: A Cross-Historical Approach’, in Journal of Studies on Alcohol 38 (1977), pp. 852–66.
20. Dwight Heath, ‘A Decade of Development in the Anthropological Study of Alcohol Use: 1970-1980’, in Mary Douglas (ed.), Constructive Drinking: Perspectives on Drink from Anthropology (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1987), pp. 16–53.
21. Mary Douglas (ed.), Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
22. Heath, ‘A Decade of Development’, p. 36.
23. Douglas, Constructive Drinking, p. 14.
24. Donald Horton (‘The Functions of Alcohol in Primitive Societies’, Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol 4 [1943], pp. 199–230).
25. W.J. Rorabaugh's The Alcoholic Republic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
26. Norman H. Clarke, Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition (New York: W.W. Norton, 1976).
27. E.A. Watson, Religion and Drink (New York: Burr Printing House, 1914).
28. Samuele Bacchiocchi's Wine in the Bible: A Biblical Study on the Use of Alcoholic Beverages (Berren Springs. MI: Biblical Perspective, 1989).
29. ‘Drunkenness’, p. 872.
30. Genesis 1-11: A Commentary [trans. J.J. Scullion; Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984], p. 487.
31. Samuele Bacchiocchi's, Genesis 12-36: A Commentary [trans. J.J. Scullion; Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1985], p. 313.
32. Walter Brueggeman asserts that Noah's plight is ‘not a negative comment on drinking, alcohol, or drunkenness’ (Genesis [Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching; Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1982], p. 89).
33. Von Rad argues that since Noah is the first to drink wine. the reader ‘must on no account morally condemn his drunkenness’ (Genesis: A Commentary [OTL; trans. John H. Marks; Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1961], p. 136).
34. E.A. Speiser says nothing about Noah (Genesis [AB, 1; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982], pp. 62–63).
35. Robert Davidson adds only the cryptic ‘there are those for whom the pilgrimage of faith ends tragically’ (Genesis 12-50 [CBC; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979]. p. 78).
36. Oswyn Murray and Manuela Tecusan (eds.), In Vino Veritas (Oxford: Alden, 1995).
37. Louis Grivetti, ‘Wine: The Food with Two Faces’, in Patrick McGovern, Stuart Fleming and Solomon Katz (eds.), The Origins and Ancient History of Wine (Luxembourg: Gordon & Breach, 1995), pp. 9–22 (14).
38. Piotr Michalowski, ‘The Drinking Gods: Alcohol in Mesopotamian Ritual and Mythology’, in Lucio Milano (ed.), Drinking in Ancient Societies (Padova: Sargon, 1994), pp. 29–44.
39. Burkert, ‘Oriental Symposia’, pp. 7–21.
40. Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton, Drunken Comportment: A Social Explanation (Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1969).
41. Grivetti, ‘Wine: The Food with Two Faces’, p. 14.
42. Douglas (ed.), ‘Introduction’, to Constructive Drinking, p. 4.
43. MacAndrew and Edgerton, Drunken Comportment, p. 3.
44. Deipnosophists 2.36b-c.
45. Amerine and Singleton (Wine, p. 326).
46. Odyssey 9.360, 371-74.
47. J.V. Kinnier Wilson, The Nimrud Wine Lists: Cuneiform Texts front Nimrud, I [London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1972], pp. 5–6.
48. Plato, Symposium 176e. 176a.
49. Dwight B. Heath. ‘Drinking Patterns of the Bolivian Camba’, in David J. Pittman and Charles R. Snyder (eds.), Society, Culture, and Drinking Patterns (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1962). pp. 22–36.
50. Douglas (ed.). in her ‘Introduction’ to Constructive Drinking, p. 8.
51. Lawrence Stager, ‘Archaeology of the Family in Ancient Israel’, BASOR 260 (1985), pp. 1–35.
52. John Skinner, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Genesis (ICC; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910). p. 321.
53. von Kad, Genesis, p. 231.
54. Westermann, Genesis 12-36, p. 414.
55. Davidson, Genesis 12-50, p. 84.
56. William J. Darby, Paul Ghalioungui and Louis Grivetti, Food: The Gift of Osiris, II [London: Academic Press, 1977], p. 585.
57. R. Barnett, ‘Assurbanipal's Feast’, Eretz-Israel 18 [1985] pp. 1*-6*.
58. Kinnier Wilson, The Nimrud Wine Lists.
59. Michalowski, ‘The Drinking Gods’, pp. 29–44.
60. Burkert, ‘Oriental Symposia’, p. 7.
61. Athenaeaus (Deipnosophists 10.429b)
62. C. Robinson, Everyday Life in Ancient Greece (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1933), p. 76.
63. 1 Sam. 1.23-24.
64. Skinner, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, p. 321.
65. Speiser, Genesis, p. 155.
66. von Rad, Genesis, p. 232.
67. R. Patai, ‘Familism and Socialization’, in Abdulla Lutfiyya and Charles Churchill (eds.), Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures (The Hague: Mouton, 1970), p. 579.
68. Claus Westermann, stresses too the banquet's importance against the backdrop of a high child mortality rate (Genesis 12-36, p. 338).
69. Michalowski, ‘The Drinking Gods’, p. 33.
70. Claus Westermann sees no pun since the previous uses of the verb were qal, and since the subject here is Ishmael, not Isaac, but that is the point here (Genesis 12-36, p. 339).
71. Robert Alter, who sees no difference in meaning with the piel in a banquet context (Genesis: Translation and Commentary [New York: W.W. Norton, 1996], p. 98).
72. Gen. 16.4-6.
73. Jo Ann Hackett, ‘Rehabilitating Hagar: Fragments of an Epic Pattern’, in Peggy Day (ed.), Gender and Difference in Ancient Israel (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989), pp. 20–21.
74. Hackett, ‘Rehabilitating Hagar’, p. 21.
75. Alter argues for ‘mocking laughter’ (Genesis, p. 98).
76. von Rad, Genesis, p. 232.
77. Samson Hirsch, Genesis (London: L. Honig & Sons, 1963). p. 354.
78. Gen. R. on Gen. 39.17.
79. Wolfgang Rösler. ‘Wine and Truth in the Greeek Symposiun’, in Murray and Tecusan (eds.), In Vino Veritas, pp. 106–12 (108).
80. Jellinek, ‘The Symbolism of Drinking’, p. 863.
81. Broshi, ‘Wine in Ancient Palestine’, p. 21.
82. P. Kyle McCarter notes, suspects Absalom's political ambitions (II Samuel: A New Translation [AB, 9; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984]), p. 334.
83. McCarter notes this as well, that Arnnon's drunkenness is a given of his participation at a banquet (II Samuel, p. 333).
84. Donald Goodwin, Alcoholism: The Facts (Oxford: Oxford University, 1994), p. 9.
85. Horton, ‘The Functions of Alcohol’, p. 214.
86. Exod. 23.14-19.
87. Exod. 34.18-26.
88. Lev. 23.1-44.
89. Deut. 16.1-17.
90. Grivetti, ‘Wine: The Food with Two Faces’, p. 14.
91. James Ross, ‘Meals’, IDB, III, pp. 315–18 (315).
92. Odyssey 9.5-6, 11.
93. Joseph Gusfield, The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving and the Symbolic Order (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
94. Douglas (ed.), ‘Introduction’ to Constructive Drinking, p. 11.
95. Grivetti, ‘Wine: The Food with Two Faces’, p. 14.
96. Douglas (ed.), ‘Introduction’ to Constructive Drinking, p. 12.
97. 2 Sam. 13.18-19.
98. Gen. 29.22.
99. Judg. 14.10-11.
100. Est. 2.17-18.
101. Burkert, ‘Oriental Symposia’, p. 7.
102. Michalowski, ‘The Drinking Gods’, p. 29.
103. Gregory Austin, Alcohol in Western Society from Antiquity to 1800 (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1985), p. xvi.
104. Amerine and Singleton, Wine: An Introduction, p. 325.
105. Hugh Johnson, Vintage: The Story of Wine (New York Simon & Schuster, 1989), p.12.
106. Speiser (Genesis, p. 225).
107. Gen. 24.65.
108. Plato, Laws VI.775b-c.
109. KTU 1.17.1.30-31.
110. N. Wyatt, Religious Texts from Ugarit: The Words of Ilimilku and his Colleagues (The Biblical Seminar, 53; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998). p. 258.