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Throughout the years I’ve reviewed many books about plants; herbalism, growing them, trees, culinary herbs, and many more perspectives. However, recently I was approached about the opportunity to review a book about plants written from a unique perspective, the Bible. In the Garden: An Illustrated Guide to the Plants of the Biblediscusses trees and shrubs, edible plants, medicinal and aromatic plants, and flowers from the Old Testaments and New Testaments.<\/p>\n
Why the Bible? As it’s pointed out in the introduction, The Bible is full of metaphors that come from plant life: sowing, pruning, tending, reaping, and storing; seeds, stalks, fruit, chaff, and leaves.That, A study of the plants in the Bible also gives us an appreciation for the scope of the narrative of God’s people in Scripture,and that, a careful study of the meaning of words in the Bible brings our imaginations into worship of our King.<\/p>\n
So, you don’t practice a Judeo-Christian religion. Why bother with this book? Because it gives us, particularly those of us who love nature but aren’t knowledgeable in Scripture a new perspective to many plants. Each plant outlined in the book has a corresponding piece of Scripture and history of the plant. At the end, there’s even some ideas for growing your own Biblically inspired garden!<\/p>\n
In the Gardenis 128 pages of beautiful full-color illustrations by Becky Speer in a slim hardcover format. This would make a lovely coffee table book and an excellent gift for anyone who is intrigued by plants.<\/p>\n
You can learn more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n