title: Cultural unit red in the Old Testament
abstract: Abstract The paper describes and analyzes the full presence of red in the Old Testament – in Hebrew and translations. The approach is interdisciplinary, which includes: the treatment of color as a cultural unit, according to the idea of Umberto Eco; lexical and contextual semantics; examining Basic Color Terms (BCT – adjective, noun, verb), Prototype Terms (PT blood and fire ), Rival Terms of Prototypes (RT), e.g. ruby ; Ters for Basic Features of the Prototypes (TBFP burn ); translation as a cr
journal: Language and Semiotic Studies