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The Incense offering ((ヘブライ語:קְטֹרֶת) ''qetoret'') in Judaism was related to perfumed offerings on the altar of incense in the time of the Tabernacle and the First and Second Temple period, and was an important component of priestly liturgy in the Temple in Jerusalem.〔Jacob Neusner Yoma 1990 Page 82 "It is the wood offering which makes possible the incense offering. It must follow that the wood-offering should take ... The wood-offering comes before the blood rite, and the blood rite comes before the burning of the incense."〕 == In the Hebrew Bible == The sacred incense prescribed for use in the wilderness Tabernacle was made of costly materials that the congregation contributed (Exodus 25:1, 2, 6; 35:4, 5, 8, 27-29). The Book of Exodus describes the recipe: At the end of the Holy compartment of the tabernacle, next to the curtain dividing it off from the Most Holy, was located the incense altar. (Exodus 30:1; 37:25; 40:5, 26, 27) According to the Books of Chronicles, there was also a similar incense altar in Solomon's temple in Jerusalem (1 Chronicles 28:18 and 2 Chronicles 2:4). Every morning and evening the sacred incense was burned. (Ex 30:7, 8; 2Ch 13:11) Once a year on the Day of Atonement coals from the altar were taken in a censer, or fire holder, together with two handfuls of incense, into the Holy of Holies, where the incense was made to smoke before the mercy seat of the ark of the testimony. (Leviticus 16:12, 13.) The book of Exodus lists four components of the incense while the Talmud lists seven additional components from the oral Torah. The four components from the book of Exodus are *stacte (נָטָף ''nataf'') *onycha (שְׁחֵלֶת ''shekheleth'') *galbanum (חֶלְבְּנָה ''khelbanah'') *pure frankincense (לְבוֹנָה זָךְ ''levonah zach'') The components are still being studied and are not determined with absolute certainty. Stacte is variously described as being the extract of the transparent portion of the myrrh resin which exudes spontaneously from the tree, or a balsam from a tree such as opobalsamum or a styrax. Onycha, which in Greek means “nail,” is variously described as being the operculum from a shell found in the Red Sea (which are said to resemble a fingernail), the exudation from the rock rose bush called labdanum (both petals and markings which are said to resemble a fingernail), Styrax benzoin, bdellium, or even cloves. Galbanum is generally considered to be ''Ferula galbaniflua''. Also considered is a milder variety from the Levant or possibly even a close relative of ''Ferula galbaniflua'' called narthex (or giant fennel). Pure frankincense is the resin of a tree of the boswellia species. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Incense offering」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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