caa a22 4500 388023112 CHVBK 20180307124930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199802 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0036930600049991 doi S0036930600049991 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0036930600049991 Barker Margaret 24 Gordon Road, Borrowash, Derbyshire DE72 3JX, UK Beyond the Veil of the Temple: The High Priestly Origins of the Apocalypses [Elektronische Daten] [Margaret Barker] The veil of the temple was woven from blue, purple, crimson and white thread, and embroidered with cherubim (2 Chron 3.14); the veil in the tabernacle had been similar, (Exod 26.31; 36.35). It was a valuable piece of fabric, and both Antiochus and Titus took a veil when they looted the temple (1 Mace 1.21-2; BJ 7.162). In the second temple it was some two hundred square metres of fabric; when it contracted uncleanness and had to be washed, three hundred priests were needed for the job (m. Shek 8.4-5). Josephus says it was a Babylonian tapestry (BJ 5.212), a curtain embroidered with a panorama of the heavens (BJ 5.213). The veil separated the holy place from the most holy (Exod 26.33), screening from view the ark and the cherubim or, in the temple, the ark and the chariot throne. We are told that only the high priest entered the holy of holies, once a year on the Day of Atonement. Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1998 Scottish Journal of Theology Cambridge University Press 51/1(1998-02), 1-21 0036-9306 51:1<1 1998 51 SJT https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600049991 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600049991 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Barker Margaret 24 Gordon Road, Borrowash, Derbyshire DE72 3JX, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scottish Journal of Theology Cambridge University Press 51/1(1998-02), 1-21 0036-9306 51:1<1 1998 51 SJT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge