THE TABERNACLE; ITS HISTORY AND STRUCTURE pdf download

The Tabernacle; its history and structure

THE TABERNACLE; ITS HISTORY AND STRUCTURE

The kernel of the book is the history and architecture of the Tabernacle.

There are mathematical calculations involved in the architectural restoration of the Israelitish sanctuary into which I will not follow him;

they must be left to the professional mathematician. It is naturally only that part of Mr. Caldecott’s research that deals with subjects familiar to me about which I am qualified to write.

He has made considerable use of the much-neglected materials contained in the Books of the Chronicles and has shown that when properly understood they are worthy of more credit than criticism nowadays is disposed to allow.

 That David should have left ‘ plans ‘ of the future temple buildings behind him may seem to modem an idea to many readers, but it is borne out by archaeological facts.

Such plans were made in Egypt and Babylonia centuries before the days of David, and some of them have survived to our own time. The profession of the architect is immensely old in the civilized East.

One of the points upon which he has rightly insisted is the historical importance of the destruction of Shiloh. It is a point to which I also have drawn attention in my Early History of the Hebrews.

 That there should be no detailed account of it in the Old Testament is not surprising;

Shiloh was the center and home of what literary culture there was in Israel during the stormy period of the Judges, and its destruction necessarily meant a break in the literary and annalistic record.

It would have been at the central sanctuary only that a yearly chronicle of events could be kept.