Baruch Sterman

Ok, so I was thinking this would talk a lot about the Murex dye. And it does, extensively, sort of. It talks a lot more about Jewish history and the attempts over time to dye a particular religious garment a particular shade of blue -- and that's interesting, but I think it would be more compelling if I was interested in obscure schisms in the Jewish faith and had studied the Talmud and was concerned about what this dye means to the people of that faith.

I am interested in the murex dye -- in the history, the technical information on how to effectively use it, the modern state of the Murex population and what impact the dye trade has on it... and all that's in the book, if you have the time and patience to wade through the rest of what is really quite a scholarly dissertation.… (mais)