A Day in the Temple

by A. J. Maas

Publisher:

B. Herder

, 1892

From a vast number of ancient and modern writings, Catholic and Protestant, A. J. Maas has compiled a minute account of the sacrificial services and Temple-rites which prevailed in Jerusalem at the time of our Redeemer's coming.

Contents

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“A favorite saying of the Rabbis has it: ‘The world is like unto an eye. The ocean surrounding the world is the white of the eye, its black is the world itself, the pupil is Jerusalem, but the image within the pupil is the sanctuary.’” (Page 17)

Product Details

• Title: A Day in the Temple
• Author: A. J. Maas
• Publisher: B. Herder
• Print Publication Date: 1892
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jews › Social life and customs; Judaism › Liturgy
• Resource ID: LLS:DAYINTEMPLEMAAS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:33:14Z

About A. J. Maas

Anthony John Maas (1859–1927) was a noted catholic exegete, or writer of critical interpretation of scripture. He was born in Bainkhausen, Province of Westphalia, Prussia and died in Saint Andrew’s-on-the-Hudson, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1927. Maas was educated at public and private schools and the gymnasium at Arnsberg, Westphalia, the Jesuit scholasticates at Manresa, New York, Woodstock College, and Manresa, Spain.