It
is naturally in " the Book " that we find one of the first
mentions of the vine and the wine. More precisely in the history of Noah right
after the flood.
GENESIS IX 18
For
those which would not control Latin here a translation 18. Sem, Cham
and Japhet were the
sons of Noah who left the arch; Cham it is the father
of Canaan. 19. They were
the three sons of Noah, it is from them that all the ground was populated. 20. Noah was
the first farmer. He planted a vine. 21. and he
drank the wine of it, became drunk and was naked inside his tent.
A few words of history: the Exodus of Egypt of the Hebrews under the control of Moise which is the author of the Genesis, is supposed to have taken place under the reign of RamsèsII which, him, left solids traces in history ( the colossi of Abou Simbel ) with one of the longest reigns which one knows from 1290 to 1224 before JC. Moise would have led the Hebrews out of Egypt in 1280 and would have then written the Pentateuque, and thus the history of Noé( see that I still know what I'm talking about!), during the years of wander in the desert. As you see when there are not distractions it is necessary to know how to occupy oneself, and him, generous as he was it thought of the future generations: not knowing that a day the TV would exist , he wrote a rather vague or rather contradictory text so that one can discuss about it " AD vitam aeternam ". It is necessary to say that the writing of the Bible is done during the 5th century before JC. Useless thus to remind you the legendary aspect of these writings which show that the wine is much more than a product for human consumption, it is a so powerful principle of life that it will remain a very long time prohibited to women.