Word: terebinth
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...bacteria that turn wine into vinegar. Among the key ingredients in the fight against the latter were aromatic compounds found in certain tree resins. In the 7,500-year-old wine residues McGovern's lab identified in 1996, for example, was the clear chemical signature of resin from the terebinth tree, a type of pistachio that grows throughout the Middle East. Today only the Greeks still drink resinated wine, but the practice could become more widespread if McGovern's interest in re-creating ancient beverages catches on. The reconstructed Phrygian grog was a lovely drink, McGovern dreamily recalls, "with...
...telltale substances in a salt clinched the new finding: tartaric acid and resin from the terebinth tree. Tartaric acid occurs in large amounts only in grapes, and terebinth resin was a wine preservative used all over the ancient Near East up through Roman times...
...flinch when the priest at a wedding intones: "Let no man separate what God has joined," instead of, "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder." Something is missing, too, when "the spirit is willing but nature is weak." Inexplicably, some words have become more obscure ("terebinth," for instance, replaces "turpentine tree"). And sometimes the translation seems a bit too breezy. In the tense temptation scene, Jesus formerly proclaimed to the Devil, "It is written"; now he says, "Scripture has it." In James 2:16, "Go in peace" becomes "Goodbye and good luck...
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