Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel
Vragen, overdenkingen en achtergronden over de Bijbel,
welke resulteren in allerlei aantekeningen.
welke resulteren in allerlei aantekeningen.
James A. Duke , Duke's Handbook of Medicinal Plants of the Bible, , [2008], p. 478, Hairy Elm
For linguistic and ecological reasons, Zohary criticizes the translations of the Hebrew words vegeshem yegadel as “and the rain nourishes it” as thematically unfounded and illogical. He says geshem must also be a species of tree — one of the five species contained in the quoted passage. This is the only elm species mentioned by Zohary, along shady creeks in Lower Galilee, Mt. Carmel, and Samaria, and Zohary suggests that this species is among those five trees (FP1; ZOH). So, as a fan of slippery elm, I include this nearly empty entry for Ulmus canescens, fleshing it out with a generic entry, including data below for several elm species, but mostly slippery elm data for U. campestris (BOU and JNP), VAD for U. carpinifolia. None of the activities and indications have thus far been reported for the Israeli species — to the best of my knowledge.
Michael Zohary , Plants of the Bible, , [1983], p. 128, 