Baraita de-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan : a Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation.

The description of the wilderness Tabernacle (melekhet ha-mishkan) in Exodus exerted a lasting impact on ancient Jewish culture, evidenced by other texts influenced by its description in Exodus: the description of Solomon's temple (I Kings 6-7), the sanctuary described in the Temple Scroll (cols. 3-13), the Eupolemus fragments, and Josephus. Philo of Alexandria first interprets the Tabernacle account in the Greek tradition of allegory wherein the tabernacle represents an archetype of the universe, that physical entity most approximating the divine abode. Apocalyptic literature frequently presents a celestial sanctuary, but the Temple rather than the Tabernacle is often the paradigm. Origen represents a typical patristic view where the tabernacle description is read completely figuratively. Tannaitic, amoraic, and geonic literature, on the other hand, provides scattered remarks on and explanations of biblical passages but no sustained exegesis of the tabernacle description. Baraita de-Melekhet ha-Mishkan presents the only systematic rabbinic exegesis of the tabernacle account to come from late antiquity or the Middle Ages. In contrast to Philo, the Church fathers, and the aggadic midrashim, this baraita assumes that the tabernacle and its furnishings need explanation as historical objects. The technology of construction, the calculation of measurements, and the delineation of architectural forms concern the framers of this document. Kirschner provides 150 pages of introductory analysis on this document's genre, structure, language, origin, date, and textual criticism before providing a critical edition with apparatus. Following the critical edition can be found Kirschner's English translation, Genizah transcriptions, plates, an appendix of biblical citations within the baraita and one for biblical and postbiblical sources in general, bibliography, and general index. Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_001 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_002 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_003 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_004Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_005 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_006 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_007Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_008 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_009 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_010Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_011 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_012 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_013Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_014 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_015 Re -- RE -- HQT -- Baraita De-Melekhet Ha-Mishkan A Critical Edition with Introduction and Translation (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) Robert Kirschner 320p_0878204148_Page_016 The description of the wilderness Tabernacle (melekhet ha-mishkan) in Exodus exerted a lasting impact on ancient Jewish culture. This book provides a substantial introductory analysis of this ancient document's genre, structure, language, origin and date, before providing a critical edition with apparatus. He also provides an English translation.