{"id":12543,"date":"2017-03-24T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:32:46","slug":"ancient-egyptian-parallels-to-the-ark-of-the-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/2017\/03\/24\/ancient-egyptian-parallels-to-the-ark-of-the-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Egyptian Parallels to the Ark of the Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Within the last few years, some fascinating research\u00a0has been done\u00a0concerning\u00a0the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred box described\u00a0in the Hebrew Bible. One significant\u00a0individual in this field of study is\u00a0Raanan Eichler, a credentialed\u00a0scholar who has\u00a0argued\u00a0that some important clues about\u00a0the physical form of the Ark of the Covenant could\u00a0be found\u00a0in ancient\u00a0Egypt. In one article, Eichler submits that the “crown” on the Ark (Ex. 25:11; 37:2) was a\u00a0cavetto cornice, a common architectural motif\u00a0on ancient Egyptian chests. He has\u00a0also argued\u00a0that the Ark had\u00a0four legs that held it above the ground, and that it had four carrying poles that could\u00a0retract and be concealed beneath the box, another feature of\u00a0some ancient Egyptian chests.<\/p>\n

This type of research\u00a0demonstrates\u00a0how valuable cross-cultural analysis can be for Biblical studies.\u00a0The Ark of the Covenant as described in the Hebrew Bible hasn’t been discovered, and there are no portraits\u00a0of the Ark\u00a0made by people who saw it. However, scholars\u00a0can infer certain details about the Ark and other objects described in the Bible by studying objects that belonged to\u00a0cultures with whom the ancient Israelites would have interacted,\u00a0and therefore had\u00a0shared architectural motifs.<\/p>\n

Below the research articles can be found detailing the links between Egyptian arks and the ark believed to be made by the Israelites.<\/p>\n

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“The Meaning of pa’am in the Context of Furniture”, by Raanan Eichler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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“The Meaning of z\u0113r”, by Raanan Eichler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Poles of the Ark: On the Ins and Outs of a Textual Contradiction, by Raanan Eichler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Additionally, other scholars have written about the Egyptian link to the Ark of the Covenant. Scott B. Noegel is the\u00a0professor of Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington. In 2015 he wrote an appealing article about an Egyptian ark called “the Sacred Bark”.<\/p>\n

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Scott B.Noegel, The Egyptian Origin of the Ark of the Covenant 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Within the last few years, some fascinating research\u00a0has been done\u00a0concerning\u00a0the Ark of the Covenant, the sacred box described\u00a0in the Hebrew Bible. One significant\u00a0individual in this field of study is\u00a0Raanan Eichler, a credentialed\u00a0scholar who has\u00a0argued\u00a0that some important clues about\u00a0the physical form of the Ark of the Covenant could\u00a0be found\u00a0in ancient\u00a0Egypt. In one article, Eichler submits that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6273,"featured_media":12577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1258,1544,7139,1877],"tags":[7141,7140,7144,7143,7146,7145,7142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dustoffthebible.com\/Blog-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}