The wine Jesus used

[Thomas]

Geez RAD, if I still owned my winery I would have to change its name; I called it Cana Vineyards (its corporate name was The Cana Creation, Inc.) Beer, indeed!

As a point of scholarism: the Semitic word for wine in Jesus' days is likely to have been the same (or damned close) to the Pheonician word for wine, which was a direct reference to fermented grapes. And since the Greeks learned to make wine from Pheonicians, it is likely too that the interpretations of the New Testament (which were in Greek) included the word for wine and not for beer. So there!

Anyway, the question was not which wine was changed from water but which wine did Jesus serve at the last supper. My guess, aside from my feeble attempt at humor above, is that the wine was Lebanese (which of course would make it a product produced from descendants of the Phoenicians). The Lebanese valley has been a source of wine for quite a long time.

[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 04-20-2002).]