Gloria Abella Ballen
Published: 2020
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"Historically the plants of the Bible have been of great interest for botanical studies, for their medicinal qualities, for cooking, for building gardens, for inspiration, as metaphors for teaching etc. The Bible narrative provides a social and symbolic meaning for the plants, although there has been difficulty in the translations and sometimes the names of precise species mentioned in the narrative are not known. The Hebrew Bible was written in Aramaic and Hebrew, it was first translated into Greek in the second century BCE, into Latin in the fourth century CE, and later into the many languages of the world. The images in this book are of the plants mentioned in the narrative of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) using the English translation from the JPS, their Hebrew name, and their scientific name in Latin. These images are accompanied by references from the Biblical narrative. In the text I focused particularly on the five most mentioned plants: Fig, grape vine, olive, date palm and pomegranate"--