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protosanctuary en · NOUN

Etymology

From proto- + sanctuary.

Meanings

1. A precursor to a sanctuary.
   • T. Desmond Alexander, The City of God and the Goal of Creation (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018), makes the distinction (contra Beale) that Eden is not necessarily a “protosanctuary,” but rather, that each later sanctuary is “a restored garden of Eden” (19). 2019, Jared August, “Genesis, Deuteronomy, and the Hope of an Eschatological Mediator”, in Journal of Ministry & Theology:
   • Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue, 1991, Eugene Vance, “Style and value: From soldier to pilgrim in the Song of Roland”, in Yale French Studies:
   • An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice. 2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion:

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