SOURCE: http://in.news.yahoo.com/137/20090630/758/twl-ark-of-the-covenant-will-not-be-show.html
The head of Ethiopia's Orthodox Church on Tuesday denied reports that he is about to unveil to the world the Ark of the Covenant that Moses is said to have stored the Ten Commandments tablets in.
Patriarch Abune Paulos said Italian media had incorrectly reported that he would place the Ark in a museum in the country's north.
Legend has it that the box-shaped Ark has been hidden from sight in Ethiopia since 642 BC.
"I am deeply disappointed that the Italian media misquoted me and disseminated false information about me unveiling the Ark of the Covenant to the world," he said at a news conference.
"It is a fabrication, disinformation."
Some Ethiopians believe that Prince Menelik I -- who is said to be the result of a union between Israel's King Solomon and the Ethiopia Queen of Sheba -- took the Ark from Jerusalem to Ethiopia while he was in power around 950 BC.
"I would like to confirm once again that the Ark of the Covenant and the sacred tablets containing the Ten Commandments that God delivered to Moses are in Ethiopia," Abune added.
Replicas of the Ark are in more than 50,000 Orthodox churches in the Horn of Africa country, the church says.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church says it keeps the Ark in a holy shrine in the north of the country. Only a small number of priests can even go near the room where it is said to be kept.
4 comments:
Why should anyone care about this fake Ark of the Covenant when a much more important holy relic has already been discovered in Stephan Huller's book, the Real Messiah:
http://www.amazon.com/Real-Messiah-Throne-Origins-Christianity/dp/1906787123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246539906&sr=8-1
Huller went to Venice and proved that the Throne of St. Mark in the Basilica San Marco dates to the beginning of Christianity. It also explains why the Patriarch of Alexandria (in both Coptic and Greek Orthodox traditions) is given the title Papa.
This is a real historical object, i.e. it is not a fake. You can see it with your own two eyes the next time you go to Italy. It is also being made into a TV documentary for a US Cable network.
Again, why waste your time with this 'Ark of the Covenant' nonsense when it is completely fake.
The book costs about $18 but you can get it sometimes for less than that. Maybe if you are still sitting on the fence check out his blog instead at wwww.stephanhuller.blogspot.com.
It's really cool.
Jacob
I have seen at least to different secular documentaries on the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia over the years. Neither intimated that the artifact was "fake". Seems like local Muslims down there or Jewish historians would have debunked the claim by now.
Certainly, if you are sure it is fake then please put forth some evidence with which to back up your claim.
It has been more than a month now and no evidence has presented itself to indicate that this is fake.
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