Böcker av Lourdes Garcia Urena

The title constitutes an innovative research about the language of colour in the Bible, particularly about the colour terms related to green. It applies a specific methodology that emerges from the study of the concept of colour in the biblical texts and from the tools provided by cognitive linguistics; it offers a deep semantic analysis of terms by bringing together relevant information provided by semantics and other linguistic disciplines.

This book is aimed at biblical and classical scholars. It resolves one of the most striking questions about the Book of Revelation: what is its literary genre? John chooses a literary form, similar to that of the short story, allowing him to use time-space coordinates flexibly, to dramatize the text and to take his time in describing his visions.