A Newly Translated Hebrew Text Reveals What Happened To The Ark Of The Covenant

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Image showing the Ark of the Covenant being carried.

A newly translated Hebrew text claims to reveal where treasures from King Solomon's temple were hidden and discusses the fate of the Ark of the Covenant itself.
But unlike the Indiana Jones movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark," the text leaves the exact location of the Ark unclear and states that it, and the other treasures, "shall not be revealed until the day of the coming of the Messiah son of David …" putting it out of reach of any would-be treasure seeker.

King Solomon's Temple, also called the First Temple, was plundered and torched by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II in the sixth century B.C., according to the Hebrew Bible. The Ark of the Covenant is a chest that, when originally built, was said to have held tablets containing the 10 commandments. It was housed in Solomon's Temple, a place that contained many different treasures. [Religious Mysteries: 8 Alleged Relics of Jesus]

The newly translated text, called "Treatise of the Vessels" (Massekhet Kelim in Hebrew), says the "treasures were concealed by a number of Levites and prophets," writes James Davila, a professor at the University of St. Andrews, in an article in the book "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha More Noncanonical Scriptures Volume 1" (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2013).


The Treatise of the Vessels from the Hebrew book Emek Halachah

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Hopefully the ten stone tablets didn't finish up as part of a garden wall

in a similar manner to the pink marble which was stripped from the Colosseum in Rome by builders in the middle ages for use in local houses leaving the Colosseum with just the large brass rivets which originally held the marble slabs in place.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. "published in Amsterdam in 1648"

um....

[LostOne4Ever]

3. How convienent

That it won't be found till then.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. "a piece of entertaining fiction"

So, what we have here is a Hebrew text that has been known of since 1648 at least, and which is seen as fiction (no - I thought the mention of angels must make it true ...), that no-one has bothered translating into English, until now. And which doesn't actually say where the Ark is anyway. I can't see why 'livescience' bothered with this at all.