Editing Tabernacle (section)

==Meaning==
The English word ''tabernacle'' derives from the [[Latin]] [[Glossary of ancient Roman religion#auguraculum |''tabernāculum'']] (meaning "tent" or "hut"), which in [[Religion in ancient Rome|ancient Roman religion]] was a ritual structure.<ref>{{cite book |first= William Warde |last= Fowler |author-link= William Warde Fowler |title= The Religious Experience of the Roman People |location= London |date= 1922 |page= 209}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first= John |last=Scheid |author-link=John Scheid |title=An Introduction to Roman Religion |url-access= registration |publisher= Indiana University Press |date= 2003|url= https://archive.org/details/introductiontoro00sche/page/113 |pages= 113–114}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Linderski |first= Jerzy|title= The Augural Law |work= Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt |volume= II |number= 16 |date= 1986 |pages= 2164–2288}}</ref> The Hebrew word ''mishkan'' implies "dwell", "rest", or "to live in".<ref name=CathEn>{{Catholic Encyclopedia |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14424b.htm |title= Tabernacle |first=Charles Léon |last=Souvay}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=mishkan |title=Mishkan |work=Strong's Concordance |access-date=11 October 2018}}</ref> In [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]], including the [[Septuagint]], the Hebrew is translated σκηνή (''[[Skene (theatre)|skēnē]]''), itself a [[Semitic languages |Semitic]] loanword meaning "tent".<ref>
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Biblical scholar Michael B. Hundley argues that the Priestly source uses the terms "tabernacle" and "tent of meeting" in a complementary way to emphasize the sacred tent’s dual function as a divine dwelling place on earth and a place where the resident deity meets with his people.<ref>{{cite book |title=Current Issues in Priestly and Related Literature: The Legacy of Jacob Milgrom and Beyond |last=Hundley |first=Michael B. |publisher=SBL Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-62837-122-2 |page=17 |editor-last=Gane |editor-first=Roy E. |chapter=Tabernacle or Tent of Meeting? The Dual Nature of the Sacred Tent in the Priestly Texts |editor-last2=Taggar-Cohen |editor-first2=Ada |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5rUjCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA17}}</ref>

Dr. Hacham Isaac S. D. Sassoon argued that the Priestly source’s focus on the Tabernacle, rather than the Temple, serves as a post-exilic critique of the idea of rebuilding a stationary Temple, presenting the mobile Tabernacle as a divinely-ordained permanent structure for the Israelites.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sassoon|first1=Hacham Isaac S. D. |year=2018|title=The Tabernacle: A Post-Exilic Polemic Against Rebuilding the Temple|website=TheTorah.com|url=https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-tabernacle-a-post-exilic-polemic-against-rebuilding-the-temple}}</ref>