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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topics: Abstinence total, Drunkard, Drunkenness, Wine.

Drink in scripture covers the intoxicating beverages of Israelite and ancient Near Eastern life — chiefly wine — and the moral terrain surrounding their use, abuse, and refusal. The biblical material falls into four clusters: total abstinence (Nazarites, Rechabites, Daniel, John the Baptist), the figure of the drunkard, drunkenness as instance and as judgment, and wine itself in its agricultural, medicinal, sacramental, and table uses.

Click the following to read the full topics on this subject: Abstinence total, Drunkard, Drunkenness, Wine