The Bible described it as the perfect, pure blue. And then for nearly 2,000 years, everyone forgot what it looked like
By NOGA TARNOPOLSKY
SEP 10, 2018 | 3:00 AM
| JERUSALEM
The Bible described it as the perfect, pure blue. And then for nearly 2,000 years, everyone forgot what it looked like.
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.
Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-israel-blue-20180910-htmlstory.html#
I thought this was interesting. A few months ago, at another website I believe, someone argued that there was no blue mentioned in history prior to more modern time.
