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Zohar Amar

Biology

#12666

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#16157

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Botany

#800

World Rank

#1963

Historical Rank

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Zohar Amar's Degrees

PhD Botany Bar-Ilan University
Masters Botany Bar-Ilan University
Bachelors Botany Bar-Ilan University

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According to Wikipedia, Zohar Amar is a professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies at the religious-Zionist Bar-Ilan University, whose research specialties are: natural history in ancient times; the identification of the flora of the Land of Israel and identification of the fauna of the Land of Israel according to descriptions in classical Jewish sources; the material culture and realia of daily life in the Middle Ages as reflected in agriculture and commerce; the history of medicine and ethno-pharmacology. His research integrates diverse fields of knowledge, including branches of natural science, history, archaeology, linguistics, and Judaic studies.

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Zohar Amar's Published Works

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Ethnopharmacological survey of traditional drugs sold in the Kingdom of Jordan. (2002) (253)
Ethnopharmacological survey of traditional drugs sold in Israel at the end of the 20th century. (2000) (211)
Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah (2007) (58)
The Jerusalem Balsam: from the Franciscan Monastery in the old city of Jerusalem to Martindale 33. (2005) (41)
"Fossils" of practical medical knowledge from medieval Cairo. (2008) (41)
Reconstruction of the inventory of materia medica used by members of the Jewish community of medieval Cairo according to prescriptions found in the Taylor-Schechter Genizah collection, Cambridge. (2006) (32)
Medicinal properties of Commiphora gileadensis. (2010) (29)
New Evidence of the Purple‐Dye Industry at Tel Shiqmona, Israel (2017) (17)
Practice versus Theory: Medieval Materia Medica according to the Cairo Genizah (2007) (16)
Early evidence (late 2nd millennium BCE) of plant-based dyeing of textiles from Timna, Israel (2017) (14)
Identifying the Ancient Shibuta Fish (2006) (11)
The Scarlet Dye of the Holy Land (2005) (11)
The Significance of the Genizah's Medical Documents for the Study of Medieval Mediterranean Trade (2007) (9)
Ampelographic and genetic characterization of an initial Israeli grapevine germplasm collection (2015) (9)
Chemical analysis of Murex-dyed textiles from wadi Murabba'at, Israel (2015) (9)
The Eating of Locusts in Jewish Tradition After the Talmudic Period (2002) (8)
Early evidence of royal purple dyed textile from Timna Valley (Israel) (2021) (6)
Arabian Drugs in Early Medieval Mediterranean Medicine (2016) (5)
The Contribution of Archaeozoology to the Identification of the Ritually Clean Ungulates Mentioned in The Hebrew Bible (2010) (5)
Written sources regarding the Jazirat Fara'un (Coral Island) textiles (1998) (4)
IBN RUSHD ON GALEN AND THE NEW DRUGS SPREAD BY THE ARABS (2009) (4)
The revolution in textiles in Eretz Israel and Syria in the Middle Ages (1998) (3)
What They Served at the Banquet for the Wedding of Shim'on Nathan's Daughter: Considerations on the Sense of Tsvi, in Sources from East and West (2012) (3)
The Ash and the Red Material From Qumran (1998) (3)
The Production of Salt and Sulphur from the Dead Sea Region in the Tenth Century according to at-Tamimi (1998) (3)
Most-Cherished Gemstones in the Medieval Arab World (2017) (3)
The turning point from an archaic Arab medical system to an early modern European system in Jerusalem according to the Swiss physician Titus Tobler (1806-77). (2004) (3)
On Ibn Juljul and the meaning and importance of the list of medicinal substances not mentioned by Dioscorides (2014) (3)
Appendix One. Practical Materia Medica (2008) (3)
CAPTIVE GAZELLES IN IRAQI JEWRY IN MODERN TIMES IN RELATION TO CULTURAL PRACTICES AND VERNACULAR HOUSING (2009) (3)
Ibn Al-Suri, Physician and Botanist of Al-Sham (2003) (2)
Agricultural realia in light of the lachish relief (1999) (2)
An early glimpse at western medicine in Jerusalem 1700-1840: the case of the Jews and the Franciscans' medical activity. (2005) (2)
The history of medicine in Jerusalem (2002) (2)
BALSAM: THE MOST EXPENSIVE PERFUME PLANT IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (2017) (1)
Appendix Three. Compound Medicines And Drugs (2008) (1)
Wall Pellitory as a Glass Cleaning Material in the Land of Israel in the Middle Ages (2008) (1)
[The traditional materia medica in Jerusalem according to Titus Tobler]. (2000) (1)
Biblical Milk Taboos and Scientific Methodology with Ancient Nomenclature (2011) (1)
A re-evaluation of the textile dyes in the Cave of Letters (2016) (1)
[Medicine in Jerusalem during the Ayyubid period]. (1999) (1)
The Paper And Textile Industry In The Land Of Israel And Its Raw Materials In Light Of An Analysis Of The Cairo Genizah Documents (2011) (1)
Appendix Five. Prescriptions, Lists Of Materia Medica And Notebooks (2008) (0)
Clarifying Why the Muscovy Duck is Kosher : A Factually Accurate Response (2011) (0)
INDEX OF ENGLISH NAMES (2018) (0)
Tree Wormwood (Artemisia Arborescens) at Montfort Castle: The Possible Introduction of a Medicinal Plant from Western Europe to the Latin East in the Crusader Period (2016) (0)
Chapter Five. Inventory Of Practical Materia Medica Of The Genizah People, Its Analysis, And Comparisons With The Theoretical Inventory (2007) (0)
Giraffe: A Halakhically Oriented Dissection (2002) (0)
[Ethiopia in Israel--an ethnopharmacological study of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel]. (2008) (0)
Chapter Three. The Identification Of Materia Medica In The Genizah And Method Of Presenting The Data (2008) (0)
Books also Received (2001) (0)
Chapter Six. Materia Medica: Detailed Items (2008) (0)
Appendix Two. Theoretical Materia Medica (2008) (0)
Ben Tree (Moringa peregrina) Oil and Its Uses in the Land of Israel (2022) (0)
Chapter Seven. Materia Medica: Concise Items (2008) (0)
Sap and Oil from the Officinal Storax Tree (2021) (0)
Analysis of the Blue Color from Textile Gr11Q31a (2019) (0)
Rabbi David De Silva (2006) (0)
Chapter Four. Prescriptions, Lists, Letters And Their Analysis (2008) (0)
Chapter Two. Practical Materia Medica And Its Sources (2008) (0)
Chapter Eight. Epilogue (2008) (0)
Index Of Arabic Names (2008) (0)
Appendix Four. Foodstuffs (2008) (0)
The Use of the Terebinth Tree (Pistacia ssp.) in the Land of Israel in Antiquity: Fruit, Oil, and Resin (2021) (0)
Index of Scientific Names (2019) (0)
Index of Scientific Names (2006) (0)

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