Karl, You many have seen it, but in case you haven't, Richard Elliot Friedman does a great job measuring in 'who wrote the bible?'
Uzi Silber On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM, K Randolph <[email protected]> wrote: > B Hebrew: > > I just read Exodus 26 and decided to try to model in Google Sketchup the > tabernacle and other constructions connected with it. This was done to see > if I can get a better handle on the technical terminology used. > > I know it is not exact, but in round figures, I used the measurement of 1.5 > ft / cubit. > > From verse 15, I read it to say that the planks holding the tent up are > vertical. Verse 16 they are ten cubits (15 feet, about 5 meters) tall by a > cubit and a half wide (about 2 1/4 feet, 3/4 meter), and from other > descriptions probably about 6–9 inches thick. Wow! Try to buy planks like > that at your local lumber yard! I bet you would find it difficult. > > It’s very unlikely that Israel got those planks by bringing them from Egypt > when they left, so that gives an idea of the types of trees that were still > found at that time in Sinai—big trees, able to produce such massive planks. > > This also gives a very different picture of the tent—20 beams long by six > beams wide plus corner pieces, in meters about 15 meters long by five meters > wide by five meters tall. In round figures, 45 feet long by 15 feet wide by > 15 feet high. That’s a big tent. Far different from all the illustrations > I’ve ever seen that make it seem much smaller. > > This has changed the way I think the tent cloths were made and joined > together. To be honest, I’m not sure how that was done. As a result, I did > not finish making the model. > > This is just from chapter 26, I’ll see how this is modified when I read the > later chapters that describe the actual construction process in greater > detail. Hopefully that will clear up some of my questions raised by trying > to make the model. > > Sent for your information, and comments. > > Karl W. Randolph. > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
