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.
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…]
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.
[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.
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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.
Since this is an old thread, and the new post doesn’t appear to contribute much, I’m going to close it.