medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> I seem to recall reading somewhere an arguement that the destruction
> of the Temple was an act of Divine supercession more than punishment,
> but don't remember where I came across that arguement.
On some late medieval calendar pages, as for example in the early 14th-century Belleville
Breviary, this idea of Divine Supercession involves "the Synagogue" rather than the Temple
per se (or, at least, that is the usual interpretation): at the bottom of each calendar page, a
Prophet standing beside a building, the Synagogue, hands a veiled prophesy to an Apostle,
who unveils it, transforming it into an Article of Faith, and at the same time, the Prophet
removes a stone from the Synagogue. At the end of the 12-month cycle, the Synagogue is
completely in ruins, since the New Dispensation is completed by the 12 Articles of the Credo.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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