Note: unless stated otherwise, all quotes were taken from the official site.The Tisch Family Zoological GardensJerusalem Biblical Zoo is also known as the Tisch Family Zoological Gardens.The establishment of the zoo in its present form was made possible thanks to the generosity of the Tisch ...
Niebuhr inquired after it of the Greek patriarch, and also of the metropolitan at Cairo, who thought it to be a species of gnat found in great quantities in the gardens there, and whose bite was extremely painful. A merchant who was present at the inquiry called it dubabel-keb, or the...
To explain this, Lightfoot quotes the following from the Talmud: "They lay dung to moisten and enrich the soil; dig about the roots of trees; pluck up the seckers; take off the leaves; sprinkle ashes; and smoke under the trees to kill vermin." In addition to the various modes of ...