By Lytton John Musselman, Garrison Keillor
This publication celebrates the crops of the previous testomony and New testomony, together with the Apocrypha, and of the Quran. From acacia, the wooden of the tabernacle, to wormwood, whose sour leaves cured intestinal worms, eighty one interesting chapters—covering each plant that has a real botanical counterpart—tell the tales of the end result and grains, grasses and timber, plants and fragrances of historical lore. The descriptions contain the vegetation botanical features, habitat, makes use of, and literary context. With evocative quotations and revelatory interpretations, this data is all of the extra severe at the present time because the conventional agrarian societies that knew the vegetation in detail turn into urbanized. The surprisingly vast geographic diversity of this quantity extends past Israel to surround the Holy Lands biblical associates from southern Turkey to significant Sudan and from Cyprus to the Iraq border. Richly illustrated with wide colour images and with a foreword by means of the incomparable Garrison Keillor, this pleasant ecumenical botany deals the welcome tonic of a deep inspect a permanent, shared typical background.
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The latter use is significant in I Kings 10:12, where harps and lyres are mentioned: “Of the almug timber the king made supports for the Temple of Yahweh and for the royal palace, and harps and lyres for the musicians; no more of this almug timber has since come or been seen to this day” (NJB). Could this wood from Lebanon be the wood used in King Solomon’s carriage (Song of Solomon 3:9)? C. Boxwood is one of the best-known evergreen ornamental shrubs in north temperate regions and is a favorite subject for topiary.
But unlike those relatives, the fruit of the almond is unusual: the leathery outer covering splits at maturity, releasing the stone. Almonds are mentioned six times in the Bible, only in the Old Testament, and not in the Quran. The first Bible reference is in Genesis 43:11 (KJV), where Jacob orders his sons to take some of the “best products of the land” as a gift to Pharaoh when they travel to Egypt to request grain. The best-known reference is Aaron’s rod that budded: “Moses spoke to the Israelites, and all their leaders gave him one branch each, twelve branches in all for their families; Aaron’s branch was among them.
Near Suweida, Syria. Botanists are in general agreement with the system developed by M. Zohary and published in 1973 outlining three major vegetation domains in the Middle East. The first is the Mediterranean, which extends from Turkey as far south as the southern border of Israel and inland no more than 200 kilometers, except where modified by mountains. Plants in this flora, like olive and grape, are widespread around the Mediterranean. Much of the natural vegetation has been heavily modified by grazing; this largely treeless (or with stunted trees), scrubby vegetation is known as batha (a Mediterranean dwarf shrub formation; a slightly taller formation is known as garique) or maquis (a Mediterranean formation of evergreen low trees and tall shrubs with mostly hard leaves).