Röm 14,21 und koscherer Wein

In Rom 14:21, St. Paul states "it is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that makes your brother or sister stumble". Meat is mentioned in this context before (Rom 14:2), whereas wine is not. This paper aims to show that the refusal to consume both meat and wine can be explained by the kashrut laws, according to which meat and wine are kosher only if they are produced by Jews. The problem is that these laws cannot be verified for the New Testament period. This paper studies a number of texts of the Second Temple period, which mention Jews abstaining from meat and wine in pagan surroundings. This explanation fits into an interpretation of the "weak" in Rome as Judeo-Christians who continue to observe the jewish halakha. Following a rupture between Jews and Judeo-Christians in Rome, the latter had no possibility of obtaining kosher meat and wine, hence they abstained totally from both.