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A Dictionary of
Bible Plants
L
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A DICTIONARY OF BIBLE PLANTS
This book describes and illustrates each plant mentioned in the
Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. It draws on Lytton
John Musselman’s extensive field investigations from Beirut to Bor-
neo and from the Atlas to the Zagros mountains and includes his
own photographs of each plant. The text also reviews recent analyti-
cal studies of plants used in materials and technology as well as beer
production, medicine, tensile materials, soaps, and other articles. On
the basis of these materials, Musselman provides several new plant
identifications from controversial biblical passages. In addition, the
book surveys the history of biblical plant literature from the time of
the Greeks and Romans to the present and reviews and correlates it
with biblical plant hermeneutics. To aid readers, extensive references
for further study are provided, along with an index to all verses con-
taining references to plants that enables the reader to quickly locate a
plant of interest in its textual setting.
Lytton John Musselman
is Mary Payne Hogan Professor of Botany
in the Department of Biological Sciences at Old Dominion University
and a longtime student of plants of the Bible and Quran. Among his
books on this topic are
Jordan in Bloom: Wildflowers of the Holy Land
and
Figs, Dates, Laurel, and Myrrh: Plants of the Bible and the Quran
.He
is also founder and manager of the Blackwater Ecologic Preserve in
southeastern Virginia and is presently part of a team working on a
flora of Iraq.
A DICTIONARY OF
BIBLE PLANTS
LYTTON JOHN MUSSELMAN
Old Dominion University
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Musselman, Lytton J.
A dictionary of Bible plants / Lytton John Musselman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 978-0-521-11099-0 (hardback)
1. Plants in the Bible – Dictionaries.
I. Title.
BS665.M86
2011
220.8
5803 –dc23
2011025065
ISBN 978-0-521-11099-0 Hardback
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