Author: 

Mony Almalech

Design: 

Krassimira Despotova

Illustrations: 

Mony Almalech

Cover: 

Laminated soft cover with jacket

Pages: 

448

Sizes: 

160/230

LIGHT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT is the second volume of Mony Almalech’s Biblical Hermeneutic project. The tools of etymology, comparative linguistics, textual analysis and modern scientific theories and methods are applied to study the subject of colour in the Bible. It is a popular view that the Bible is God’s word that exudes light. Mony Almalech analyses the 25 Hebrew roots denoting light and purity and the impossible task of translating them into a Indo-European language. The language picture of the world in Biblical Hebrew is exposed, allowing an in-depth interpretation of the text’s meaning which is often novel to a European reader. The facts about the text are not only presented as linguistic phenomena and translation issues, but are also complemented by theological, physicochemical, cultural, historical and semiotic aspects.
Key words and phrases: angelology; types of windows; types of linen; God’s throne; what is a psalm; fire as a type of light; semantic transformations of light