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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moldenkes give up guessing about some of the plants of the Bible. The "hyssop that groweth out of the wall" might be any one of many wall-growing plants. The manna that fed the Children of Israel has been variously explained as a gum that forms on desert trees, as algae that grow overnight on dew-covered ground, as a lichen that blows around the desert, even as migrating quail. The Moldenkes have confidence in none of these theories. They think that manna was a legendary product with no botanical origin. The Children of Israel had no theory about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Botany of the Bible | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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