Posted on 06/11/2005 7:29:53 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
Closer to home, there were also centuries old beans found in the Southwest at an Anasazi dig. They were sucessfully sprouted and propagated. The seed is even available commercially now.
However, the PC Times just couldn't leave well enough alone:
The point is to find out what was so exceptional about the original date palm of Judea, much praised in the Bible and the Koran for its shade, food, beauty and medicinal qualities, but long ago destroyed by the crusaders.
I don't suppose the Muslim's and the 'tree tax' had anything to do with it at all; that it was ALL due to the eeeevil
Crusaders?
Maybe so...it's a labor-intensive crop, brown in color. I'd like to get a mess and cook 'em up! Collards and some pork...
In one of the walls, we found the remains of somebody's lunch from 1925. I sampled some of the bread; it was stale, and a strange saffron-yellow color but otherwise edible. I replaced it with a note describing the contents and condition as of 2005, and wishing Bon Appétit to the next gastronomic archaeologist.
I thought an 80-year-old lunch was special, but a 2,000-year-old date tops it. (Insert Clinton mummy joke here.)
The prophesied Davidic Seed of Peace?
Precisely my question. How and why? I should think that the Crusaders were too busy with other endeavors to take the time to be destroying trees.
Another thought -- the meat of this date could have been nibbled by Christ (34 AD). That thought just gives me shivers!
Yes it does. I just hope the tree is self fruiting.
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