Bible
The Biblical (and Post-Biblical) Blues
An iconoclastic exploration into the biblical colors of tekhelet and argaman.
Bible
An iconoclastic exploration into the biblical colors of tekhelet and argaman.
Gold
An etymology of many things golden.
Translation
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.