Comments for Pedantic Dan http://PedanticDan.com   Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:30:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Comment on Twenty To One Revisited by Pedantic Dan http://PedanticDan.com/booze-in-the-bible/twenty-to-one-revisited/#comment-14 Pedantic Dan Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:30:17 +0000 http://PedanticDan.com/booze-in-the-bible/twenty-to-one-revisited/#comment-14 Yes, it is the best they can do. It does suggest a certain degree of desperation. Yes, it is the best they can do.

It does suggest a certain degree of desperation.

]]> Comment on Twenty To One Revisited by Brian http://PedanticDan.com/booze-in-the-bible/twenty-to-one-revisited/#comment-13 Brian Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:59:48 +0000 http://PedanticDan.com/booze-in-the-bible/twenty-to-one-revisited/#comment-13 I stumbled on your blog this morning, and it was just last night that I was conversing with my wife about this very subject! I have long heard the argument that wine was diluted 20:1 but have never heard the source. Homer is the best they can do? Sad . . . I stumbled on your blog this morning, and it was just last night that I was conversing with my wife about this very subject! I have long heard the argument that wine was diluted 20:1 but have never heard the source. Homer is the best they can do? Sad . . .

]]> Comment on Twenty To One by Pedantic Dan http://PedanticDan.com/booze-in-the-bible/twenty-to-one/#comment-5 Pedantic Dan Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:50:59 +0000 http://danofsteel.com/ignoreme/uncategorized/twenty-to-one/#comment-5 Thanks, Dan. I wonder why more people don't react to, "We know from Homer's The Odyssey ..." Thanks, Dan.

I wonder why more people don’t react to, “We know from Homer’s The Odyssey …”

]]> Comment on Twenty To One by dan miller http://PedanticDan.com/booze-in-the-bible/twenty-to-one/#comment-4 dan miller Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:14:36 +0000 http://danofsteel.com/ignoreme/uncategorized/twenty-to-one/#comment-4 Good one, Dan. Further, if you consider the usual hyperbole that occurs in these stories, it gets even clearer. They probably considered wine mixed 1:20 to be an unusually high level of dilution. Otherwise it wouldn't be an extreme story. Good one, Dan. Further, if you consider the usual hyperbole that occurs in these stories, it gets even clearer. They probably considered wine mixed 1:20 to be an unusually high level of dilution. Otherwise it wouldn’t be an extreme story.

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