The Tearing of the Temple Curtain
Baker Academic · Biblical Studies
Published September 2026 · ISBN 9781540971401
From the publisher
In this book, Adam W. Jones and J. Daniel Hays argue that God the Father tore the curtain of the temple as an act of mourning over his Son's death. This interpretation has been neglected, though it has ancient precedent. In Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures, tearing clothes was a common expression of grief, and early Christian interpreters often linked this custom to the tearing of the temple curtain.
Description adapted from the publisher, Baker Academic.
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