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Athalya Brenner presents her studies on the role of color in Old Testament texts. Realizing that words themselves are only part of the overall context of Scripture, Brenner examines the literary and semantic significance of color in Hebrew texts. She also writes about development in culture, language, and vocabulary. Brenner looks at the mental associations we have with color and shades, and how...

this primary group. Their sense is determined by their being mutually exclusive, while their non-linguistic references depend chiefly on the listing and on the interpretation of their contexts. The next, lower layers are those of secondary and tertiary terms. These are more restricted in scope than the primary ones and are often—and quite transparently—derivatives of the former (שָחֹר→שְחַרְחֹר*, אָדֹם→אֲדַמְדַּם). The internal territory of each colour sector—the combination of hue, brightness, and
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