"Rochelle I. Altman" wrote: > > Tyler, > > The Christian use of colors would supply ample reasons for the prohibition > of the use of color in sacred texts in the _later_ Jewish tradition. However, > when added to Robertson on color in Assyrian and Ugaritic texts, the DSS, > and the much later Moslem docs, we have strong evidence for the continuity > of the use of colors in Semitic sacred docs right on down the centuries. > =================== I have the cdrom Encyc Judaica and look everything up in that first before I post. I've been prohibited from posting to this list copying/pasting my responses using the words of the Encyc Jud, and told to summarize it. Now how can one impartially summarize or even selectively quote from any encyc? I also have had the bookshelf version which is a duplicate, for over 20 years. It's such a time-saver having the cdrom always available.
So I searched "color near text" and now I wonder, having come into the middle of the discussion, if you mean "Illuminated Manuscripts"? You can look it in the Encyc Jud. I haven't looked at the Dead Sea Scrolls with relationship to all this. I can't review everything in cyberspace, so could someone tell me if any of the Dead Sea Scrolls have color in their manuscripts? Wouldn't the use of color represent the classification "Illuminated Manuscripts"? -- Be-ahavah oo-ve-shalom oo-ve-emet, Ethel Jean Saltz Mac(hiavelli)-Niet(zsche)-Spin(oza)-Gal(ileo), 392 A.G. (after Galileo) mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For private reply, e-mail to ethel jean saltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from Orion, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: "unsubscribe Orion." Archives are on the Orion Web site, http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il. (PLEASE REMOVE THIS TRAILOR BEFORE REPLYING TO THE MESSAGE)
