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Yahweh the Wrathful Vintner: Blood and Wine-making Metaphors in Isaiah 49:26a and 63:6
- Author(s):
- Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (view group) , Rebekah Welton
- Date:
- 2022
- Group(s):
- Biblical Studies, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Religious Studies, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
- Subject(s):
- Bible. Isaiah, Wine and wine making, Metaphor in the Bible, Temperance, Blood, Fermentation, Viticulture in the Bible
- Item Type:
- Article
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/950y-vj25
- Abstract:
- This article reassesses the metaphors found in Isa 49.26a and 63.6 in their historical and socio-religious context of alcohol production. Using interdisciplinary approaches from archaeology and anthropology, traditional interpretations that have emphasised a context of alcohol consumption and drunkenness, rather than wine production, are countered. I argue that these grape treading images, which also evoke blood imagery, focus upon the transformation of grape juice into wine and invoke the notion of divine participation in the production of alcohol. The transformation of the blood of Israel’s enemies is the punishment that Yahweh is imagined to carry out in these scenes, rather than inflicting drunkenness on them.
- Notes:
- Rebekah Welton, "Yahweh the Wrathful Vintner: Blood and Wine-making Metaphors in Isaiah 49:26a and 63:6," Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies 4.3 (2022): 19–41.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 11 months ago
- License:
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