Wine and the Bible - Part 5

INTRO: In our series thus far I have first sought to give you a picture of how difficult our subject is and have described it as Christianity's Scanlon error. We set the criminal free and imprisoned the innocent. I have proposed to you that the Bible deals with two kinds of wine; good wine, grape juice; and bad wine; fermented wine. Then we have looked at two words that have been translated as wine and those are tirosh and yayin. I have proposed to you that tirosh is not wine at all, but that it is a broad term for more or less sweet fruits. This morning we want to look at the most crucial word, sheykawr spelled shekar. Sheykawr is a noun, and we will look at its very close relative, the verb shawkawr. It is not the purpose of these messages to cover all the minor words that have to do with our topic. My aim is to cover those words most crucial to our study.