The Language of Colour in the Bible : : Embodied Colour Terms related to Green /

The Language of Colour in the Bible : : Embodied Colour Terms related to Green / / Lourdes García Ureña, Emanuela Valeriani, Anna Angelini, Carlos Santos Carretero, Marina Salvador Gimeno.

The Bible is one of the books that has aroused the most interest throughout history to the present day. However, there is one topic that has mostly been neglected and which today constitutes one of the most emblematic elements of the visual culture in which we live immersed: the language of colour....

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VerfasserIn:
García Ureña, Lourdes,
Angelini, Anna,
Salvador Gimeno, Marina,
Valeriani, Emanuela ,
MitwirkendeR:
Murphy, Donald,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Fontes et Subsidia ad Bibliam pertinentes , 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 238 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I Colour Terms: object, study and method
  • I.1 Understanding colour in the Bible
  • II The Hebrew Bible Corpus
  • II.1 ירק yereq and its polysemy: ‘verdure’, ‘the colour of grass in the spring’
  • II.2 יר קקר yǝ raqraq and its polysemy: ‘the colour of mould’, ‘the colour of gold’
  • II.3 ירוק yā rôq: ‘greenery’
  • II.4 ירקון yēr ā qôn: ‘the colour of fear’
  • III The Greek Bible Corpus (LXX and NT)
  • III.1 Χλωρός and its polysemy: ‘the colour of vegetation’, ‘the colour of death’, ‘greenness’
  • III.2 Χλωρότης: ‘the colour of a kind of gold’
  • III.3 Χλωρίζω: ‘to turn greenish’
  • III.4 Πράσινος: ‘stone as a colour’
  • IV The Latin Bible Corpus
  • IV.1 Viridis and its polysemy: ‘the colour of grass’, ‘the colour of the almond, poplar and plane trees’, ‘greenness’
  • IV.2 Viriditas: ‘greenery’
  • IV.3 Viror and its polysemy: ‘the colour of calamus and reeds’, ‘the colour of a type of gold’, ‘verdure’
  • IV.4 Vireo: ‘to show the colour of plants’
  • IV.5 Viresco: ‘to become the colour of a tree or the new fresh grass’
  • IV.6 Pallidus: ‘the colour of death’
  • IV.7 Pallor and its polysemy: ‘mould’, ‘the colour of a type of gold’, ‘the colour of fear’
  • V The language of Colour in the Bible
  • V.1 Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Ancient Sources

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