Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Patrick J. Emsweller" <patrick AT clubgraves.com>]

Some may have run across this but just to bring it forward, the Ark is
supposedly located in Ethiopia in the Orthodox Church St. Mary of Zion in
Aksum.  There have been numerous shows on this, i.e. the History Channel,
Mysteries of the Bible etc.  One can do a search on those key words "Ark"
"Ethiopia" etc at Google.

This posting does not necessarily mean the poster agrees with this
information. =) I only put it out for discussion purposes if it deems
necessary.

-patrick

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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Søren Holst
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 7:36 AM
To: b-hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Stone slab replacing the Ark of the Covenant

Venturing outside the HB canon, the first thing we come across is 2.
Maccabees stating that Jeremiah hid the ark in a cave east of the Jordan
before the Babylonians destroyed the temple, and that Jeremiah said "the
place will remain unknown until God brings his people together again and
lets righteousness reign" (2 Macc 2,7-8 in my own feeble reproduction of a
Danish translation). Whether this prophecy in the eyes of 2 Macc would most
likely refer to the return from the exile in the late 6th century BCE or to
an escathological situation, I'm not sure.

I *think* (please correct me) there's a rabbinic tradition that the ark is
hidden somewhere under the temple mound and that therefore the shekinah
still dwells at the same place. But is this hiding associated with the
destruction of the first or second temple?

kol tuv
Soren

> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra:  b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[SMTP:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] på vegne af Alexander Oldernes
> Sendt:        2. august 2005 12:57
> Til:  b-hebrew
> Emne: [b-hebrew]  Stone slab replacing the Ark of the Covenant
> 
> Maybe your expertise can help me with this question...
> 
> I have read somewhere that when the curtain covering the entrance to the 
> Most Holy was torn in two, in the first century CE, the Most Holy was 
> exposed containing no Ark of the Covenant. In place of the Ark was a stone

> slab upon which the high priest sprinkled the blood on the Day of
Atonement.
> 
> I know the last mention of the Ark of the Covenant is in 2. Chronicles
35:5, 
> saying:
> He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been 
> consecrated to YHWH: "Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of

> David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your 
> shoulders."
> 
> This happened around 642 (?) BCE.
> 
> And now the question...
> Do we know that the Ark of the Covenant was replaced by a stone slab?
> 
> If so...
> Who writes about it?
> Do we know when this was done?
> Do we know what the stone slab looked like?
> 
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> 
> Alexander Oldernes
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