Historical Notes: What was the Ark and what did it look like?

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 6, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

ON A mountain in Sinai, the Bible tells us, God spoke to Moses in a cloud of flame and told him to build an Ark for the Tablets of the Law. But is this where the story really begins? The earliest accounts of the Ark seem to be "prequels", written when the great relic was already installed in the Temple of Solomon. Its origins were part of a distant past, "long ago and far away", when God was believed to have appeared among men.

The first mystery of the Ark is that we have two different accounts of who made it and what it looked like. Was it an elaborate golden shrine made by the craftsman ...

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