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BOOK REVIEWS MUSSELMAN, L. J. Figs, dates, laurel, and myrrh. Plants of the Bible and the Quran. Timber Press, Portland: 2007. Pp 336; illustrated. Price £ 20.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-0-88192-855-6. Few âbooksâ can be better known than the Bible and the Quran. For centuries they have been memorized by innumerable individuals and recited in countless tongues. In the English-speaking world, phrases from the Bible are familiar even to those who have never opened a copy. There can be few who have not heard about âlilies of the ï¬eldâ or the ârose of Sharonâ. Plant names like cedar, palm, frankincense, tares or hyssop are known to people who may have no knowledge of the plants to which they refer. Even olive, wheat and grape, the ancient staples of the Middle East, may be entirely unfamiliar except in a scriptural context. As Lytton John Musselman also points out, very few of the translators of the Bible, including the men who wrote some of the ï¬nest prose ever composed in the English language for King Jamesâ âAuthorized Versionâ, could have had âlittle ï¬rsthand knowledge of the plants of the Middle Eastâ. So mistakes were inevitable as they attempted the impossible, to
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