Sacred Intoxication

In this episode we will see how the drunkard became a sinner as we touch on the ways prominent monotheistic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam came to view alcohol and the sin of drunkenness, and how these perceptions proved immensely influential to the broader history of alcohol.

Sources:

“Drunkenness,” Jewish Virtual Library, Encyclopaedia Judaica (2007).

Ammianus Macellinus, The Roman History, “Roman Antiquities” (Book XXXI), c. 390 CE (Loeb Classical Library edition, 1930).

Priscus, “Dinner with Attila,” Reading in European History, translated by J.H. Robinson (1905).

Teresa Morgan, Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Charles Cosgrove, “Banquet Ceremonies Involving Wine in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity,” The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 2 (April 2017).

Edward Gibbon, History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Vol. 3 (1782, revised edition, 1845).

N.S. Gill, “The Etymology of the Word Pagan,” ThoughtCo (June 25, 2024).

N.S. Gill, “How Did Attila the Hun Die?” ThoughtCo (October 29, 2019).

S.E. Hakenbeck, U. Büntgen, “The Role of Drought during the Hunnic Incursions into Central-East Europe in the 4th and 5th Centuries CE,” Journal of Roman Archaeology (2022).

Rod Phillips, Alcohol: A History (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

W.J. Rorabaugh, The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1979).

Benjamin Sledge, “The Curious Case of Christians and Alcohol,” Medium (November 30, 2016).

Joe Thorn, “A Theology of Wine,” Doctrine and Devotion (February 14, 2017).

Written and recorded by: Kenyon Payne

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