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Bede states in the first chapter of this work (""De Templo"") that the building of the tabernacle and the temple signifies one and the same Church of Christ. Yet this allegorical exposition of the building of the Temple, a paradigm of the genre, is relevant not only to biblical exegetes but to readers of diverse interests, including iconographers, and those concerned with mysticism or merely desiring spiritual nourishment. Even to those primarily interested in Bede's ""Historia Ecclesiastica"", it affords an understanding of that work, for its ideas are there given flesh and blood - the two books, as it were, forming a diptych.

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Both Connelly's translation of this difficult text and O'Reilly's wide-ranging discussion of the work will be welcome to all who work in the literature and history of the early Middle Ages. --The Medieval Review

Both Connelly's translation of this difficult text and O'Reilly's wide-ranging discussion of the work will be welcome to all who work in the literature and history of the early Middle Ages.--The Medieval Review

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