ATDTDA pr 347 i, j, and k smokefoot

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

David Morris
>
> So, specifically, Jesus was objecting to the Temple being made an
> exclusive place where money decides who can worship and who can't.
> Thus it seems that Pynchon's allusions in ATD to a mercantile temple
> with specific references to the Temple in Jerusalem is not just a
> toss-off, but very intentionally relevant
>

wow, yes maybe I know some of those facts but thanks for bringing
them together.   

what was the veil made of, I was wondering...

http://www.well.com/~davidu/veil.html

"a passage in Josephus's Jewish War in which 
he describes the outer veil of the Jerusalem 
temple as it had appeared since the time of Herod. 
According to Josephus, this outer veil was a gigantic 
curtain 80 feet high. It was, he says, a Babylonian tapestry, 
with embroidery of blue and fine linen, of scarlet also and purple, 
wrought with marvelous skill. Nor was this mixture of materials 
without its mystic meaning: it typified the universe....

Then Josephus tells us what was pictured on this curtain:

Portrayed on this tapestry was a panorama of the entire heavens.... [7]