TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walsh,Carey
TI  - The fruit of the vine: viticulture in ancient Israel 
T2  - Harvard Semitic Museum publications
SN  - 9789004369825
AV  - SB387.8.P19 W36 2000
U1  - 634.8/0933 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Winona Lake, Ind.
PB  - Eisenbrauns
KW  - Viticulture
KW  - Palestine
KW  - History
KW  - Wine and wine making
KW  - Viticulture in the Bible
KW  - fast
KW  - Middle East
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277); Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Viticulture as a Vital Facet of Israelite Culture -- The Sociology of the Vintner -- The Cultivation of Grape Vines -- Installations of the Israelite Vineyard -- The Grape Harvest -- Wine Consumption -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Scripture Index -- Subject Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The practice of viticulture--from planting vines to drinking wine--in Israelite culture is the focus of Walsh's investigation. Viticulture, no less than drinking, marked the social sphere of Israelite practitioners, and so its details were often enlisted to describe social relations in the Hebrew Bible. These features of everyday life offer important clues for the reconstruction of Israelite social history, the literary constructions of the oral transmitters, authors, and redactors and for thematic and theological meanings attached to biblical representations of the vine and wine imagery
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004369825
ER  -