medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Use with great caution! Their materials have not been available for scholarly
review and because of their "sectarian" nature many scholars have ignored them.
They also have verified receiving support from fundamentalist Christians in the
United States who believe the temple will shortly be rebuilt. Does their
theology color their research? Who knows? I haven't yet felt moved to purchase
their books--the multi-million volume, Penn library does not carry them.
V. K. Inman
Quoting Chris Laning <[log in to unmask]>:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Marjorie wrote:
> >Speaking of colors of statues and what nobles, etc were permitted to wear,
> we should not forget the incredibly detailed description of priestly garments
> in Ex:28-29:
> >http://www.newadvent.org/bible/exo028.htm
> >Probably would look fairly garish to us moderns :-))
>
> I forget whether anyone's mentioned this here recently, but a group called
> the "Temple Institute" in Jerusalem has been earnestly re-creating (their
> interpretation of) furnishings and vestments for the Temple for quite a few
> years now. The vestments are here:
> http://www.templeinstitute.org/vessels_gallery_16.htm
>
> To my textile-historian eyes, their attempt at the clothing suffers from
> their tendency to rely on their own interpretations from Scripture, without
> considering much of anything known about the weave, cut and construction of
> surviving historical garments. (Admittedly, such information isn't always
> particularly easy to find.) Some of the specifications would probably have
> come out quite differently if they had come to their sources knowing a bit
> more about the background. (For instance, I find it puzzling that they would
> read "And they shall make the ephod of gold, sky-blue, dark-red and crimson
> dyed wool, and twisted linen" and interpret it to mean that each and every
> thread of the cloth must contain all six elements.)
>
> I personally find the Temple Institute's assumption that a new Temple will be
> erected in the near future to be more than a bit creepy :)
>
>
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