Dear Vanessa - As I started this thread of conversation, I'll assume I can go again!
My first week at Hebrew Union College in New York (January of 1974) a distant cousin of my wife who was a librarian at a major Madison Avenue advertising agency called with a similar question. A client, a major producer of dates, wanted to a campaign around "Date - the Fruit of the Bible." She asked me for a list of scriptural verses they might use. We were both surprised to find out that while we assume that dates were commonly eaten in the ancient Holy Land, only the tree, the date-palm, is mentioned in the bible, the fruit alone is not. Phil Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
