• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Putting aside from the albinism.

    their bodies were more ruddy than coral, their form cut like sapphire.

    I’m thinking this is referencing any usually covered parts of their body. By tanned I mean, the part of the skin exposed to sunlight, so mostly their hands, face and feet.

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      1 year ago

      Just for additional context on the Lamentations 4:7 line, the Nazarite vow involved taking a cow that was entirely red, without a single hair that wasn’t red, and sacrificing it.

      And part of those vows involved being unable to cut one’s hair.

      With a number of people having been identified as being Nazarites from birth.

      So putting aside albinism/redheads might not be prudent in analyzing this particular passage.