Talk:Coat of many colors

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The lyrics to 'Tapestry' by Carole King references the coat, but not necessarily the rest of the story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.35.32.95 (talk) 01:55, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Potential Sources for Translation Research
I came to this page wondering if the "multicolored" nature of this coat was simply due to threads from many animals with different colored wool, or if dye was involved, or some other explanation. The current page hints that the phrase may not have to do do with colors at all, but I felt the current summary of possible interpretations of "ketonet passim" was somewhat unsatisfying. I started looking for more information on the translation and came across this: https://jewishaction.com/religion/jewish-thought/whats-truth-josephs-amazing-technicolor-dreamcoat/ The summary of Jewish scholarship seems very detailed, but I'm not an expert. The author is "a professor of brain science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel" -- also not a Talmudic scholar or linguist, but there are multiple links to Talmudic references at sefaria.org. So I'm not sure if some of this summary would be helpful or appropriate in this article, or if this site would be dismissed as "original research" (even though it's not mine). The citations of similar words in other contemporaneous languages and cultures in this article seemed helpful to me in understanding why there is no definitive translation. In particular, the explanation that "pas" can be translated as "palm" or "sole" and could refer to "palm-length" sleeves or a hem that goes down to the sole, or to palm-width stripes, made some sense of the widely differing possible interpretations. The similar phrase "kitu (or kutinnu) pisannu" in Akkadian, referring to a ceremonial robe with applique ornaments, also helps explain why some scholars lean toward that interpretation. I don't have access to the Kaplan reference, but perhaps someone who does could see if these details are also included there? Meanwhile, I thought I would at least drop this link here in case someone as curious as I was happened by. Edalton (talk) 20:32, 27 January 2023 (UTC)