The Biblical (and Post-Biblical) Blues
An iconoclastic exploration into the biblical colors of tekhelet and argaman.
Bible
What exactly is a favorite color?
While the simple question “what is your favorite color?” seems rather straightforward, three out of the five words are anything but.
And here are roughly 5600 words to prove it.
Translating Biblical Colors
As a general rule of thumb, color is always mistranslated in the Bible. It’s not as much that they didn’t have the same colors that we do, it’s more that our concept of color is muddled.