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Colour terms in the Old Testament / Athalya Brenner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brenner-Idan, Athalya.
- Series:
- Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 21.
- Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colors in the Bible.
- Color--Terminology.
- Color.
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield : JSOT Press, Dept. of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, 1982.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The OT semantic field of 'colour' is presented as a coherent, interdependent, and graded linguistic structure. The relevant lexical items are organized under the following categories: primary (basic) terms; secondary and tertiary terms; terms for pigments, dyes, painting and paints; and terms for stains, speckles, and other phenomena related to colour. Proper names, and names of objects which carry 'colour' associations are discussed as well. Many OT texts are discussed in detail. Finally, the OT colour field is compared to its Mishnaic Hebrew counterpart, and an Appendix dealing with the rene
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Foreword; I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS AND METHODOLOGY; II. BIBLICAL COLOUR TERMS; III. COLOUR TERMS IN MH; IV. SUMMARY; V. SOME REMARKS ON COLOUR TERMS IN MODERN SPOKEN HEBREW; VI. NOTES; VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY; ABBREVIATIONS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611802448
- 9781281802446
- 1281802441
- 9780567078315
- 0567078310
- OCLC:
- 276348495
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