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Zohar Amar
Zohar Amar (born 1960) is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at the religious-Zionist
Bar-Ilan University,[1] whose research specialties are: natural history in ancient times; the identification of the flora of the Land of Israel and identification of the fauna of the Land of Israel according to descriptions in classical Jewish sources; the material culture and realia of daily life in the Middle Ages as reflected in agriculture and commerce; the history of medicine and ethno-pharmacology. His research integrates diverse fields of knowledge, including branches of natural science, history, archaeology, linguistics, and Judaic studies.
Notable research in recent years:[2] Documents from the Cairo Genizah as a source of information about medicine in the Middle East in medieval times; pigments in ancient textiles; the early papermaking industry; kermes oak coccid as the source of the Biblical scarlet dye; purple dye; the balsam plant; traditional medicinal drugs in the land of Israel; documentation of traditions regarding the kashrut of various animals.
^Associate Professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies
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ZoharAmar (born 1960) is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at the religious-Zionist Bar-Ilan University, whose research specialties...
alkaline substance)." ZoharAmar, Flora of the Bible, Jerusalem 2012, s.v. ברית, p. 216 OCLC 783455868 (in Hebrew); ZoharAmar, Flora and Fauna in Maimonides's...
Sefer Arukh, s.v. ברדלס; ZoharAmar, Flora and Fauna in Maimonides' Teachings, Kefar Darom 2015, pp. 177–178; 228 ZoharAmar, Flora and Fauna in Maimonides'...
140. According to Amar, thought to be Mustela subpalmata or Mustela nivalis, species that were once endemic to Israel. ZoharAmar, Shmona Shratzim, Mekhon...
140. According to Amar, thought to be Mustela subpalmata or Mustela nivalis, species that were once endemic to Israel. ZoharAmar, Shmona Shratzim, Mekhon...
Abraham I translated shifon into Judeo-Arabic as sāʾfeh (סאפה), which ZoharAmar claimed is synonymous with an archaic Arabic word for oat, dowsir (دوسر)...
PMID 23990910. Auguste Escoffier (1903), Le Guide culinaire, Editions Flammarion Zohar, Amar; Lev, Efraim (January 2013). "Trends in the Use of Perfumes and Incense...
Introduction to Dioscorides Materia Medica by TA Osbaldeston, year 2000. ZoharAmar, Agricultural Produce in the Land of Israel in the Middle Ages (Hebrew...
Storax tree (Styrax officinalis), or what is called in Arabic al-mi'ah. ZoharAmar and Yaron Serri, The Land of Israel and Syria as Described by al-Tamimi...
on Sefer Midrash Rabbah, vol. 2, New York 1987, s.v. Ruth Rabba 6:3 ZoharAmar and Yaron Serri, The Land of Israel and Syria as Described by Al-Tamimi...
product consisting of its stigmas? Animals in the Bible Figs in the Bible Amar, Zohar; Iluz, David. "Balsam: the most expensive perfume plant in the ancient...
word ribah for confiture (in Hebrew). Ha-Zvi, 9 March 1888. Professor ZoharAmar, of Bar-Ilan University The Wine of our ancestors in Ancient Times on...
use of cannabis for ritualistic psychoactive use in Judah. According to ZoharAmar the fact that the Tel Arad altar was eventually closed down (apparently...
artists such as Zohar Argov (who would cover one of Amar’s songs "Barcelona"), Eyal Golan, Ishai Levi and Oren Hen. Joseph (Jo) Amar was born in Settat...
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rock-cut circles that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Professor ZoharAmar suggested that this is a unique press for making Heliston wine (the wine...
Būrīs, or Wadīs by another account, to what it is today. According to ZoharAmar, the name can be traced back, etymologically, to its earlier Greek pronunciation...
era of the crusades." Medicine in Jerusalem throughout the Ages, ed. ZoharAmar et al. Tel Aviv: C. G. Foundation, 1999. Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades:...
relation to the true radish (Heb. צנון). ZoharAmar suggests that it may have actually been Brassica napus (see Amar, Z. (2015), p. 113). One is to bear in...
says that this spice is "produced on the ground" (Hebrew: גידולי קרקע), ZoharAmar argues that it was an animal product, implying that it was viewed by some...
grey, to reddish in colour when it reaches maturity. According to Prof. ZoharAmar, this was the only locust species for which the traditional identification...
Storax tree (Styrax officinalis), or what is called in Arabic al-mi'ah. ZoharAmar and Yaron Serri, The Land of Israel and Syria as Described by al-Tamimi...
תודה) on the laws of shechita, first published in Thessaloniki in 1741 ZoharAmar. "כשרות הטווס" (in Hebrew). daat. "Dan Wyman Books, LLC". Archived from...
day. As part of his research in this area, Lev worked with Professor ZoharAmar from the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan...
Zvi Yehuda Kook. The institute has also published books by Professor ZoharAmar: "Five Types of Grain: Historical and Conceptual Aspects", and books by...
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