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The Bible Described it as the Perfect, Pure Blue..for 2,000 Yrs, Everyone Forgot What it Looked Like
The Los Angeles Times ^ | 8/10/18 | Noga Tarnopolsky

Posted on 09/19/2018 7:00:22 AM PDT by marshmallow

Forty-nine times the Bible mentions a perfect, pure blue, a color so magnificent and transcendent that it was all but impossible to describe.

Yet, for most of the last 2,000 years, nobody has known exactly what “biblical blue” — called tekhelet in Hebrew — actually looked like or how it could be re-created.

At the time of the Second Temple, which towered above Jerusalem until it was destroyed by the Romans, a blue dye of the same name was used to color the fabric used in the clothing of the high priests. Jewish men are still commanded to use a tekhelet-tinted thread in the knotted fringes of their prayer shawls, though what that might look like remained unclear for years.

Maimonides, the medieval Sephardic philosopher, described tekhelet as being the color of “the clear noonday sky.”

Rashi, the 11th century French rabbi and scholar, said it was “the color of the evening sky.”

Tekhelet was “the most prized color you could attain,” says Amanda Weiss, director of Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum.

A possible clue to the ingredients that combined to make tekhelet came from the Talmud, the canonical body of rabbinic texts, in which a man named Abaye asked an elder “this thread of tekhelet, how do you dye it?” He was told that “the blood of the snail and chemicals” (apparently caustic soda or sodium carbonate) had to be boiled together to create the dye.

It was not much to go on.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: General Discusssion; History; Judaism
KEYWORDS: bible; bibleblue; blue; dye; godsgravesglyphs; israel; jerusalem; maimonides; nogatarnopolsky; pureblue; rashi; secondtemple; talmud; tekhelet; textiles
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To: marshmallow

Baby, Blue Ain’t Your Color

https://youtu.be/SoIKv3xxuMA


21 posted on 09/19/2018 7:58:09 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Biggirl

Yet in the USA, there is a plant called the indigo flower which produces a blue color.


Yes. But they took their law very seriously. It doesn’t just say it has to be blue. It specifically told them from where to get the color. It was from a snail, now extinct. So they voted to abandon the blue thread.


22 posted on 09/19/2018 8:03:04 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Biggirl

Microsoft used that color on their “BSOD”.


23 posted on 09/19/2018 8:09:41 AM PDT by damper99
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To: marshmallow

On a similar note:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/glistening-egyptian-blue-pigment-was-forgotten-then-lost-180956451/


24 posted on 09/19/2018 8:21:00 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Guardian Sebastian

Hmm, perhaps it is all caused by a conspiracy. There could be a group behind it, a nefarious group of men. Let’s call them the “Blue Man Group”.


25 posted on 09/19/2018 8:23:41 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: marshmallow

Most collectors consider Plancheite in its rare crystal form and found in the Congo, as the most vivid blue to be found on earth.


26 posted on 09/19/2018 8:29:24 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: marshmallow
RE: "Biblical Blue" - not much to go on

Here's a starting point from a digital point of view. I'm a retired tech writer who put together many illustrations.

In your favorite drawing program, start with these settings:

RGB - R=0, G=0, B=169

HSB - H=240, S=100, B=66.27

CMYK - C=97, M=94.12, Y=0, K=0

I used these in an illustration about Jewish Rabbis.

27 posted on 09/19/2018 8:39:06 AM PDT by Ace's Dad ("John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly, Michigan.")
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To: Ace's Dad

Bookmark! Thank you!


28 posted on 09/19/2018 8:45:17 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: marshmallow
The Los Angeles Times ought to know perfectly well that it's
Dodger Blue!

29 posted on 09/19/2018 8:51:03 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: cuban leaf

Serious as in “rigid”.


30 posted on 09/19/2018 8:55:15 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

I’m listening to a podcast series right now called “The Naked Bible” with the teacher being Michael Heis. Right now we’re going through Leviticus. It’s really good. the guy has amazing bible, language and history credentials.

His view of much of the “law” in the OT is that it was designed by men, for men.


31 posted on 09/19/2018 8:58:08 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: marshmallow
When crayons were the absolute high tec to die for, this was my favorite. I would steal it out of the box and hide it so no one else could use it. It's gone now, I think replaced by a much lighter blue, which may be correct but it's not right. Image and video hosting by TinyPic
32 posted on 09/19/2018 9:28:05 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: CaptainPhilFan

Cool story.


33 posted on 09/19/2018 9:28:46 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: cuban leaf
His view of much of the “law” in the OT is that it was designed by men, for men.

That doesn't automatically make it bad. Women had their own universe of pregnancy, nursing, homemaking and handcrafts.

34 posted on 09/19/2018 11:55:47 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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To: Albion Wilde

That doesn’t automatically make it bad. Women had their own universe of pregnancy, nursing, homemaking and handcrafts.


I absolutely agree! He wasn’t trying to say it was bad either. He was just giving it context.


35 posted on 09/19/2018 11:59:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: marshmallow

Interesting. Bookmark


36 posted on 09/19/2018 12:05:31 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't waiting. Do it today.)
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To: Califreak

Durable blue was a puzzle for a long while worldwide.

Murex dye:
http://www.google.com/search?q=snail%20blue%20phoenician

Western hemisphere:
http://www.google.com/search?q=secret+of+mayan+blue


37 posted on 09/19/2018 12:22:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Phinneous
...a perfect, pure blue, a color so magnificent and transcendent that it was all but impossible to describe. Yet, for most of the last 2,000 years, nobody has known exactly what “biblical blue” — called tekhelet in Hebrew — actually looked like or how it could be re-created.

People see it without realizing, because it's the Windows default color for highlighted text. Copy, then paste (glue). Like the concept of see and do (repeat, imitate).

Glued. Bonded. Intertwined like tzitzit. People have forgotten how to do that, being so busy with their faces facing an impersonal screen. Irony. Windows to the soul.

38 posted on 09/19/2018 2:06:14 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Boogieman

Smurfs perhaps? :)


39 posted on 09/19/2018 3:23:15 PM PDT by Guardian Sebastian (God Bless President Trump and Keep Him Safe)
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To: marshmallow

40 posted on 09/19/2018 4:54:40 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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