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John Hutton Balfour was a 19th century professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow and later at Edinburgh University. The Plants of the Bible condenses his and other scholars’ observations of Holy Land flora. Hart draws on his knowledge of biblical languages and Arabic as well his botanical expertise to describe Bible plants, emphasizing the characteristics to which the Bible refers. When...

the name Tamar was used as a woman’s name (Gen. 38:6; 2 Sam. 13:1, 14:27). Some say that Tamar was Tadmor in the wilderness (2 Chron. 8:4), afterwards called Palmyra. Hazezon-tamar and Baal-tamar are also mentioned (Gen. 14:7; Judges 20:33). The former is the well-known En-gedi, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, long celebrated for its palm-groves, and mentioned by Josephus and Pliny. It is the present Ain Jidy, where there are no longer any palm-trees, although palm stems and leaves are found
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