Endnote 23 – Inside Solomon’s Temple

Richard Elliott Friedman, under the entry “Tabernacle,” The Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel Freedman (New York: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 6, pp. 292–300, has again repeated his highly imaginative proposal that the Mosaic Tabernacle stood within the Holy of Holies in Solomon’s Temple beneath the wings of the cherubim. This odd theory is totally and absolutely without foundation For a detailed refutation of it, see Hurowitz “The Form and Fate of the Priestly Tabernacle—Remarks on a Recent Proposal,” Jewish Quarterly Review, forthcoming. See also my comments in Israel Exploration Journal 34 (1984), pp. 67–69.