# Where is the Ark of the covenant? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 21, 2013, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-ark-of-the-covenant/669374 "2013-09-21T11:05:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![sich\_hinaufwinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sich\_hinaufwinden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sich_hinaufwinden)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-ark-of-the-covenant/669374/41 "2013-09-26T21:18:58Z")
> [@bup](#): > > That menorah only has six arms! The whole thing’s a fraud! I’m no expert in this stuff so I may just have a bad case of whoosh-itis but apparently that is a Temple menorah as opposed to a Hanukkah menorah. Either way, I learned a little something new, so that’s cool. > **[Temple menorah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple)#Hanukkah_.28Chanukah.29)** > > The menorah (/məˈnɔːrə/; Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה mənōrā, .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}pronounced \[menoˈʁa\]) is a seven-branched candelabrum that is described in the Hebrew Bible and in later ancient sources as having been used in the Tabernacle and in the Temple in Jerusalem. > Since ancient times, it has served as a symbol representing... ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2013, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-ark-of-the-covenant/669374/42 "2013-09-26T21:33:20Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > I think you mean we need a Green Martian. > > [SDMB motto: Nitpickingly correct. The best kind of correct!] I thought all 4 had 4 arms, red green black and white … I need to go back and read them again [well it has been about 20 years…] ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-ark-of-the-covenant/669374/43 "2013-09-27T02:51:17Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > [pedantic Catholic hijack] > The report says "The apocryphal book 2 Maccabbees ". for Catholics and Orthodox it isn’t apocryphal and even for protestants, while being part of the Apocrypha, it’s not in the same league as other apocryphal books. > > Go back to your scheduled programs and don’t forget to spay or neuter your pets. > [/pedantic Catholic hijack] The word “Apocrypha” simply cannot be unambiguously used in Protestant or Anglican circles. Sometimes it means specifically the collection included as “The Apocrypha” in Anglican bibles (which is to say all the books that RCs call “deuterocanonical”, plus 1 & 2 Esdras, _alias_ 3 & 4 Esdras, and the Prayer of Manasseh, which three were deleted from the Roman canon at the Council of Trent but continue to be attached as an appendix to the Vulgate “lest they should perish altogether”), but sometimes “Apocrypha” includes both those and all pseudepigrapha, to boot. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-ark-of-the-covenant/669374/44 "2013-10-02T11:29:21Z")
[QUOTE=Our Master, or his Disciple C K Dexter Haven] Graham Hancock wrote a book called SIGN AND SEAL, claiming the Ark is in a small church out in the desert in Ethiopia. He says the Ark was actually stolen by Solomon’s outcast son, carried to Ethiopia, and kept there secretly by a Judaic cult. [/QUOTE] It appears that you have not actually read the book _Sign and Seal_. Neverminding that Axum is not in a desert, Ethiopian legend has the Ark stolen by followers of Solomon’s son (not the son himself, who wasn’t “outcast”), but Hancock offers a much different and more plausible reconstruction. (He has the Ark carried away by Levites in the time of Manasseh, the heretic King.) There is much in _that particular_ book by Hancock which seems quite plausible, rigorously fits the evidence he claims, and remains un-debunked. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-ark-of-the-covenant/669374/46 "2017-08-23T01:02:27Z")
Since this is an old thread, and the new post doesn’t appear to contribute much, I’m going to close it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-ark-of-the-covenant/669374.md?page=2)