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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