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Date Palm has been proposed as the Tree of Life but since neither the Tree of Life nor the Tree of Knowledge is given a specific name in the Bible, their true identities continue to be the subject of speculation. The tree most mentioned in the Old Testament is the Date Palm – it occurs 34 times, mainly as a place name or a person’s given name, and only six times meaning the plant itself. Such confusion is understandable, partly because the same plant may have several names even in one country: Cyclamen persicum has at least 30 Arabic names.

For example, in these books, the biblical lily is variously taken to be seven different plants, including cyclamen. Modern books showcasing assumed biblical plants draw conclusions that are frequently questionable. In the original Hebrew version of the Bible (8th-3rd centuries BC), plant names are often unclear. Many of the medical cuneiform texts (including texts only on plants) remain to be translated. In the ruins of Assyrian Nineveh (Mesopotamia), thousands of cuneiform documents (cuneiform is a writing system invented in ancient Mesopotamia that is recognisable by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets) from earlier than 500 BC were found that mention over a thousand plant species. Ebers’ papyrus (1550 BC) contains 700 magical formulas and prescriptions, including the medical uses of plants.

Its flora includes about 2,700 species, some of medical value.Īmong the early written records of plants in this region are Egyptian medical papyri. This was an ancient botanical crossroad, enjoying an active trade in spices, incense and medicines from Egypt to Mesopotamia and beyond. The Holy Land, an area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that also includes the Eastern Bank of the Jordan, is synonymous with the biblical land of Israel and Palestine.

Barbara Boeck (Institute for Mediterranean and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Madrid) studies ancient Mesopotamian healing therapies and medicinal plants. Amots Dafni (Institute of Evolution, Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, University of Haifa, Israel) has extensive knowledge of the ethnobotany of sacred, ritual and medicinal plants of the Holy Land. Using modern interpretations of ancient Hebrew, Egyptian and Mesopotamian sources, the authors have reduced these potential medicinal plants to 45 species of which 20 were not previously included. Many previously described medicinal plants of the Bible do not match the flora of the Holy Land.

Cannabis grow bible 3rd edition chapters