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Author Musselman, Lytton John, 1943-

Title A dictionary of Bible plants / Lytton John Musselman
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 173 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents A DICTIONARY OF BIBLE PLANTS; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; REVIEW OF BIBLE PLANT LITERATURE; A HISTORY OF BIBLE PLANT RESEARCH; Ancient Greeks and Romans; The Late Renaissance; Linnaeus and the Expansion of Botanical Knowledge; The Eighteenth Century, Exploration, and Biblical Dictionaries; The Nineteenth Century and the Prominence of Natural History; The Twentieth Century and Scientific Contributions; The Moldenkes to the New Millennium; SUMMARY; A DICTIONARY OF BIBLE PLANTS; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W
Summary This book describes and illustrates each plant mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. Drawing on Lytton John Musselman's extensive field investigations from Beirut to Borneo and from the Atlas to the Zagros mountains, it also includes his original images of each plant. Incorporating new research on their use, reviews are made of recent analytical studies of plants used in materials and technology as well as ancient grains, beer production, medicine, tensile materials, soap and other articles. Based on these materials, Musselman provides several new plant identifications for controversial biblical passages. In addition, the book surveys the history of Bible plant literature from the time of the Greeks and Romans to the present, and reviews and correlates it with Bible plant hermeneutics. Extensive references for further study are provided, along with an index to all verses containing references to these plants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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SUBJECT Bibel gnd
Subject Plants in the Bible -- Dictionaries
BIBLES -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
Plants in the Bible
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Genre/Form Dictionaries
Form Electronic book
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