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The Temple or the Tomb. Giving Further Evidence in Favour of the Authenticity of the Present Site of the Holy Sepulchre, and Pointing Out Some
The Temple or the Tomb Giving Further Evidence in Favour of the Authenticity of the Present Site of the Holy Sepulchre and Pointing Out Some Author:Charles Warren Title: The Temple or the Tomb. Giving Further Evidence in Favour of the Authenticity of the Present Site of the Holy Sepulchre, and Pointing Out Some of the Principal Misconceptions Contained in [j.] Fergusson's 'holy Sepulchre' and 'the Temples of the Jews'. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Notes: This is ... more »a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PAET III, THE TEMPLE. In many modern atlases and instructional books we are now accustomed to find the tabernacle represented as a modern European tent, of the description called marquee, such as is often seen at a flower-show in this country. This idea was first propounded and brought forward about twenty years ago by Mr. Fergusson, and it has been somewhat rapidly taken up by the public, though I do not think that such a representation to the eye of an Arab or Jew (brought up in the East) would call up any idea save that of the travelling tent of a rich Frank tourist. The oblong box-like structure shown in the works of Calmct, Biihr and Milman is in all probability the real representation of the tabernacle as it existed, for it corresponds to the description given of it in the Bible ; Mr. Fergusson, however, attempts to throw ridicule on this shape (appealing to our English prejudices), by suggesting its likeness to a coffin with a pall thrown over it ; but he does not explain how a likeness to the modern form of coffin should be anyobjection to its use among a people living three thousand years ago, who used neither coffin nor pall, and whose eyes were then entirely accustomed to buildings of the general shape of our modern coffin. As a matter of fact, the oblong box (let Mr. Fergusson call it coffin-shaped if he will) was and is the genera...« less