Posted on 07/30/2017 3:51:50 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
Biblical tabernacle search under way At the site of an ancient city on the West Bank, archaeologists are hunting for evidence of the tabernacle that once housed the Ark of the Covenant.
Associates for Biblical Research, a consortium of individuals and universities, recently completed four weeks of excavation in Shiloh with the goal of eventually locating the tabernacle.
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INDY: You want to talk to God? Let's go see him together. I've got nothing better to do.
I am not sure whta they expect to find. The original taberncle was like a tent that could be moved.
It was also in the writing that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him, and that he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of God. And Jeremiah came and found a cave, and he brought there the tent and the ark and the altar of incense, and he sealed up the entrance.
Some of those who followed him came up to mark the way, but could not find it. When Jeremiah learned of it, he rebuked them and declared: "The place shall be unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy. And then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated." (2 Maccabees 2:1-8)
Interesting
Saw something about this in a TV program some time ago....
Maybe the Queen of Sheba stole it during her visit with Solomon.
IIRC, the story is that Solomon flew it there.
I thought some guy named Wyatt found the ark.
The ark was made largely of heavy cloth. Why would it still be extant?
It’s ion special place in Washoington DC.
The Sign and the Seal
Graham Hancock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_and_the_Seal
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church claims to possess the Ark of the Covenant, or Tabot, in Axum. The object is currently kept under guard in a treasury near the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion. Replicas of the Axum tabot are kept in every Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, each with its own dedication to a particular saint; the most popular of these include Mary, George and Michael.[25]
The Kebra Nagast was composed to legitimise the Solomonic dynasty, which ruled the Ethiopian Empire following its establishment in 1270. It narrates how the real Ark of the Covenant was brought to Ethiopia by Menelik I with divine assistance, while a forgery was left in the Temple in Jerusalem. Although the Kebra Nagast is the best-known account of this belief, it predates the document. Abu al-Makarim, writing in the last quarter of the twelfth century, makes one early reference to this belief that they possessed the Ark. “The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant”, he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, “on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.”[26]
In his 1992 book The Sign and the Seal, British writer Graham Hancock suggests, contrary to the Kebra Nagast, that the ark spent several years in Egypt before it came to Ethiopia via the Nile River, where it was kept in the islands of Lake Tana for about four hundred years and finally taken to Axum.[27] Archaeologist John Holladay of the University of Toronto called Hancock’s theory “garbage and hogwash,” while Edward Ullendorff, a former Professor of Ethiopian Studies at the University of London, said he “wasted a lot of time reading it.”[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant
Don’t need no tabernacle or ark. Got Jesus.
I guess one more relic might make some folks happy, but I'll take the new deal any day....
The ark was made largely of heavy cloth. Why would it still be extant?
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The ark of the covenant was made of wood. The tabernacle (tent) which housed the ark was made of heavy cloth.
Right, I was talking about the tabernacle, which is what they said they’re looking for, and typed ark unintentionally.
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