Chestnut (color) Chestnut (color) Chestnut is a colour, a medium reddish shade of brown (displayed right), and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree. An alternate name for the colour is badious. Indian red is a similar but separate and distinct colour from "chestnut". Chestnut is also a very dark tan that almost appears brown. The name "chestnut" derives from the color of the nut of the chestnut tree. The first recorded use of "chestnut" as a color term in English was in 1555. The color maroon is also named after the chestnut (via French "marron"). Deep chestnut is the
Christian Kabbalah Moses'). In it, he attempted to show that the "Zohar" contained the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. This belief also drove him to make a literal translation of the Gospel of Matthew into Hebrew and to write a kabbalistic commentary on it. Christian Kabbalah The Renaissance saw the birth of Christian Kabbalah (often transliterated as Cabala to distinguish it from Jewish Kabbalah and Hermetic Qabalah), also spelled "Cabbala". Interest grew among some Christian scholars in what they saw to be the mystical aspects of Judaic Kabbalah, which were compatible with Christian theology. The movement was influenced by a desire to