Israeli physicist and engineer Baruch Sterman, vice president of technology at Vonage, a telecommunications company, will speak to his “obsession” — unraveling the history and mystery of the biblical color tekhelet — at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Robert E-Loup Jewish Community Center.
Sterman, author of “The Rarest Blue,” helped solve by the richest and most powerful in the ancient world and mentioned throughout the Bible. Then around 700 C.E., the color/dye was lost — for 1,300 years — before rabbis and scientists rediscovered its secrets.
Sterman’s talk will be in the Phillips Social Hall at the JCC, 350 S. Dahlia St. in Denver.
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