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The Language of Colour in the Bible - Embodied Colour Terms related to Green (Hardcover)
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The Language of Colour in the Bible - Embodied Colour Terms related to Green (Hardcover)
Series: Fontes et Subsidia ad Bibliam pertinentes
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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. Colour is present in the biblical
text from its beginning to its end, but it has hardly been studied,
and we appear to have forgotten that the detailed study of the
colour terms in the Bible is essential to understanding the use and
symbolism that the language of colour has acquired in the
literature that has forged European culture and art. The objective
of the present study is to provide the modern reader with the
meaning of colour terms of the lexical families related to the
green tonality in order to determine whether they denote only color
and, if so, what is the coloration expressed, or whether, together
with the chromatic denotation, another reality inseparable from
colour underlies/along with the chromatic denotation, there is
another underlying reality that is inseparable from colour. We will
study the symbolism that/which underpins some of these colour
terms, and which European culture has inherited. This
lexicographical study requires a methodology that allows us to
approach colour not in accordance with our modern and abstract
concept of colour, but with the concept of the ancient civilations.
This is why the concept of colour that emerges from each of the
versions of the Bible is studied and compared with that found in
theoretical reflection in both Greek and Latin. Colour thus emerges
as a concrete reality, visible on the surface of objects,
reflecting in many cases, not an intrinsic quality, but their
state. This concept has a reflection in the biblical languages,
since the terms of colour always describe an entity (in this sense
one can say that they are embodied) and include within them a wide
chromatic spectrum, that is, they are mostly polysemic.
Structuralism through the componential analysis, although providing
interesting contributions, had at the same time serious
shortcomings when it came to the study of colour. These were
addressed through the theoretical framework provided by cognitive
linguistics and some of its tools such as: cognitive domains,
metonymy and metaphor. Our study, then, is one of the first to
apply some of the contributions of cognitive linguistics to
lexicography in general, and particularly with reference to the
Hebrew, Greek and Latin versions of the Bible. A further novel
contribution of this research is that the meaning is expressed
through a definition and not through a list of possible colour
terms as happens in dictionaries or in studies referring to colour
in antiquity. The definition allows us to delve deeper and discover
new nuances that enrich the understanding of colour in the three
great civilizations involved in our study: Israel, Greece and Rome.
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