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@article{Barker1998BeyondTV,
  title={Beyond the Veil of the Temple: The High Priestly Origins of the Apocalypses},
  author={Margaret Barker},
  journal={Scottish Journal of Theology},
  year={1998},
  volume={51},
  pages={1 - 21},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:170375914}
}

The veil of the temple was woven from blue, purple, crimson and white thread, and embroidered with cherubim (2 Chron 3.14); the veil in the tabernacle had been similar, (Exod 26.31; 36.35). It was a valuable piece of fabric, and both Antiochus and Titus took a veil when they looted the temple (1 Mace 1.21–2; BJ 7.162). In the second temple it was some two hundred square metres of fabric; when it contracted uncleanness and had to be washed, three hundred priests were needed for the job (m. Shek… 

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