Also see: Shebo-Shebetot / Pentacontad
“Feast of Wine”, “Feast of New Wine”
MMT A (4Q394 1-2)
On the second of the fift[h] (month): [sa]bb[ath.
On the third of it: Feast of Wine, first of sabbath (Sunday).]
Temple Scrolls 6:14-15
You [shall count] seven weeks from the day when you bring the new grain-offering to YHW [H], the bread of firstfruits. Seven full Sabbaths [shall elapse un]til you have counted fifty days to the morrow of the seventh Sabbath. [You] shall [bring] new wine for a drink-offering, four hins from all the tribes of Israel, one third of a hin for each tribe.(…)
Isaiah 62:8-9
“Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled; 9but those who harvest it will eat it and praise the Lord, and those who gather the grapes will drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.”
OTHER WINE EVENTS
Deut 16:13
Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress
(Note: the feast of firstfruits for wine is celebrated in the 3rd of the 5th month. Grapes harvest in the Jerusalem area starts in August and last until September. This could indicate that Sukkot, celebrated in the 7th biblical month, is the end the harvest season. The new wine festival could then be the celebration the first cluster of grapes harvested and of the opening of the matured wine from the previous year's harvest.)
Jubilees 7:1-2
And in the seventh week in the first year thereof, in this jubilee, Noah planted vines on the mountain on which the ark had rested, named Lubar, one of the Ararat Mountains, and they produced fruit in the fourth year, and he guarded their fruit, and gathered it in this year in the seventh month. And he made wine therefrom and put it into a vessel, and kept it until the fifth year, until the first day, on the head of the first month.
(Note: Noah probably harvested grapes around the 7th month, and fermented into wine for 6 months. until the following 1/1 to drink its wine.)
The 7 biblical Shebo-Shebetôt (pentacontads):
# Feast of First Fruits Biblical Month Gregorian Month Biblical Date
1 Barley; Waving of Sheaf 1st biblical month Apr 1/26
2 Wheat; “Weeks” 3rd biblical month May 1/26 + 50 = 3/15
3 New Wine / Pentecost 5th biblical month July-Aug 3/15 + 50 = 5/3
4 Oil & Wood 6th biblical month Sept 5/3 + 50 = 6/22
5 (…) 8th biblical month Oct-Nov 6/22 + 50 = 8/10
6 (…) 9th biblical month Dec 8/10 + 50 = 9/29
7 (…) 11th bibl. month Feb 9/29 + 50 = 11/17
(49 days + 49 days + 49 days + 49 days + 49 days + 49 days + 70 days = 364 days)
(7 x 7) x 7 + (3 x 7) = 364 days
"THE FRUIT OF THE VINE: VITICULTURE IN ANCIENT ISRAEL" - HARVARD SEMITIC MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
The Fruit of the Vine - Carey Ellen Walsh (Harvard Semitic Monographs).pdf