Extension seminar focuses on plants of the Bible
By Andrea Vasquez
Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 11:24 PM CDT
avasquez@vicksburgpost.com
Sunday sermons examine 40-day floods and burning bushes — but what kind of bush was it — a mulberry, or maybe hydrangea?
In a presentation Tuesday at the Warren County Extension Office, Lelia Scott Kelly, an associate Extension professor and consumer horticulture specialist at the North Mississippi Research and Extension Center in Verona, challenged people to give a second thought to the dozens of plants and flowers mentioned in the Bible.
“For hundreds of years, people have been interested in the botany of the Bible,” Kelly said.Her presentation, Plants of the Bible, is based on a book with the same name by Harold N. and Alma L. Moldenke.
Kelly explained that many of the Bible’s early translators were not native speakers of Greek or Hebrew — the languages from which they were translating — and often didn’t recognize the words for plant names, so they substituted with plants and flowers they knew.
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