Biblical times

Merrillees, R.S. with Evans, J. (1989). Highs and lows in the Holy Land opium in Biblical times. In Yigael Yadin Memorial Volume, ed. Ben-Tor, A., Greenfield, J. and Malamat, A., Eretz Israel 20, Israel Exploration Society, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, pp. 148-154. 

ORIGIN OF NAME The name "zirconium" was derived from the Arabic word zargun, which means "gold color." Known in biblical times, zirconium mineral had several names (e.g., jargoon, jacith, and hyacinth). Later, the mineral was called "zirconia," and the element was later named "zirconium."... 

Lead was also known in other regions of the ancient world. Lead sculptures, coins, and other artifacts have been found in Egyptian tombs dating back to 5000 BCE. Lead was also known in ancient biblical times and is mentioned in the books of Job and Exodus. 

Antimony in its black form (Stibnite, Sb S ) was known at least 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Egyptian women used it as an eyeliner for both themselves and their children. It was known during biblical times and was referred to as stick-stone it was also used during this time as black eyeliner for wealthy women. 

Incendiary warfare is one of the most ancient methods of conducting war and was used as early as biblical times... 

I call such four-dimensional beings Gods. If we ever encounter beings that can move in a fourth spatial dimension, we would find that they can perform levitation, bloodless surgery, disappear in front of our eyes, walk through walls.. .. It would be very difficult to hide from them no matter where we went. Objects locked in safes would be easy for them to retrieve. If such a being were observed in biblical times, it would be considered a God with many characteristics of omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. 

The use of psychoactive mushrooms in Central America dates back to before 500 B.c., when Mexican Indians called them teonanactl, or Pood of the Gods, because they were thought to carry prophetic messages from the deity, just as dreams were seen as prophecies from pre-Biblical times to the present. 

This family occurs in tropical America and in the northeastern portions of Africa. The latter region s species are most familiar as sources of frankincense and myrrh since biblical times. Some have use as ornamentals. 

From S s associations The fisherman dream makes me think of the Mediterranean area, perhaps even some sort of Biblical time. Right now my associations are of the fish and the loaf, or even the feeding of the multitudes. . . Once again I think of Christmas. . . Having to do with the ocean—water, fishermen, something in this area. [194, p. 592]... 

Reference to standard measures is a practice that goes back to biblical times. A linear measure, the ell, was the length of a standard forearm (about 45 inches) and was used well into modern times. 

Humans have known of trehalose since Biblical times and it appears to have been the manna that God provided for the Children of Israel as they wandered for 40 years in the Sinai wilderness before reaching the Promised Land. 

These are often referred to as clay/organic complexes and have been around since at least biblical times. During this period, clays were used to decolorize edible... 

In nearly all oil-producing basins, numerous seeps exist. Early usage of petroleum goes back to biblical times in the Middle East. The fact that seeps are often related to faults and fractures was noted, and it was even observed that seepages along the Dead Sea were activated during earthquakes. 

G7. Goldman, L., Moraites, R., and Kitzmiller, K., White spots in biblical times. Arch. Dermatol. 93, 744-753 (1966). 

Literature concerning the food industries has its origins in biblical times and much of it, in a historical sense, is really part of the general literature of the particular period or era (with the exception of relatively more recent times) considered. Thus Roman history as such and the private lives of the Romans, in particular, have to be studied to gain some idea of the food industry of that period. Much of food literature of early times is inextricably woven into the pharmaceutical and medical history of those periods. 

The KD was originally formulated to mimic the effects of fasting, as it had been known since biblical times that fasting had a beneficial effect on epilepsy (Geyelin, 1921 Wheless, 1995 Swink etal, 1997). Ever since, it has been assumed that fasting and the KD share a common mechanism of action, although this assumption has not been proven. 

The first imports of carob gum into this country were made in the late 1920 s, although this gum had been used as a thickener for textile printing pastes in Germany prior to World War I and, for some time prior to that, in Spain and Portugal as a starch replacement and as a size for paper and textiles. From Biblical times, the pods had been used in the Mediterranean countries for human and animal feed and as a source of fermentable carbohydrate. It is probable that the independent value of the bean as a source of gum was unearthed by the pharmacists, for one of the early uses of the flour in Europe was as a bulk laxative. Expansion of the American market has stimulated production of seed in Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Some of the seed is milled in those countries, as well as in England, Holland, Switzerland, and the United States. 

Texts written in Biblical times tell us that men were then working with gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, carbon, lead, sulfur, and mercury—without, of course, understanding that these were chemical elements. 

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