The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . h writers have understood theterm literally. Taking it, however, in this sense,various explanations have been given of the useto which the doves dung was applied. Some ofthe rabbins were of opinion, that the doves dungwas used for fuel, and Josephus, that it was pur-chased for its salt. Mr. Harmer has suggestedthat it might have been a valuable article, as be-ing of great use for quicken
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . h writers have understood theterm literally. Taking it, however, in this sense,various explanations have been given of the useto which the doves dung was applied. Some ofthe rabbins were of opinion, that the doves dungwas used for fuel, and Josephus, that it was pur-chased for its salt. Mr. Harmer has suggestedthat it might have been a valuable article, as be-ing of great use for quickening the growth ofesculent plants, particularly melons. Mr. Ed-wards, as cited by Dr. Harris, remarks thatit is not likely they had much ground to cultivatein so populous a city for gardens; and is dis-posed therefore to understand .it as meaningthe offals or refuse of all sorts of grain, whichwas wont to be given to pigeons, etc. Dr. Harris,however, observes that the stress of the faminemight have been so great as to have compelledthe poor among the besieged in Samaria to devoureither the intestines of the doves, after the morewealthy had eaten the bodies, or, as it mightperhaps be rendered, the Ornithogalum umbellatum. (3) Bochart, however, has shown (Ilicrocoiconii :37) that the term pigeons dung was applied DOWRY 531) DRACHMA by the Arabs to different vegetable substances,lie quotes Avicenna as applying the term stercuscolumbarum to two different plants or this Bochart lias been led to consider it asidentical with another plant, which occurs underthe name of kali, both in the Hebrew and Arabiclanguages, and which was one of the pulses usedin ancient times, as at the present day, as an ar-ticle of diet. (See Kali.) With reference to thi3grain, it has been observed that large quantitiesof it are parched and dried, and stored in maga-zines at Cairo and Damascus. It is much usedduring journeys, and particularly by the greatpilgrim-caravan to Mecca; and i
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