"protosanctuary" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From proto- + sanctuary.",
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          "ref": "1991, Eugene Vance, “Style and value: From soldier to pilgrim in the Song of Roland”, in Yale French Studies:",
          "text": "Thus, Charlemagne's protopilgrimage brings him to a protosanctuary where the hero's body is already almost a statue,",
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          "ref": "2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2019, Jared August, “Genesis, Deuteronomy, and the Hope of an Eschatological Mediator”, in Journal of Ministry & Theology:",
          "text": "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).",
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        "A precursor to a sanctuary."
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          "text": "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.",
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