The Lost Ark of The Covenant, Tudor Parfitt
The Lost Ark of The Covenant, Tudor Parfitt
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The Lost Ark of The Covenant
Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark

Author: Tudor Parfitt

Narrator: Graeme Malcolm

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperOne

Published: 02/26/2008

Synopsis

The Lost Ark of the Covenant is the real-life account of Professor Tudor Parfitt's effort to recover the revered artifact that contained the Ten Commandments sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This holy object disappeared from the Temple in Jerusalem when the Babylonians invaded in 586 BCE and was lost—apparently forever.With painstaking historical scholarship, groundbreaking genetic science, and hair-raising fieldwork, Parfitt debunks the previous myths and reveals the shocking history of the Ark and its keepers. From Israel to Egypt, Ethiopia, and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, the journey leads to places Parfitt could never have imagined.The Lost Ark of the Covenant is a vivid and page-turning account of the culmination of two decades of research by an acclaimed scholar and adventurer. In the end, legend becomes reality as an unknown history comes to light, and with it our understanding of this lost treasure is changed forever.

About Tudor Parfitt

Tudor Parfitt's life's work has been tracking down the lost tribes of Israel in Africa and Asia. As professor of Jewish studies at London's prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies and Fellow of the Oxford Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, he has written widely on the history of the Jews of Africa and Asia. In 2006, he was appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. He has traveled widely through remote areas of Africa and Asia and divides his time between London and the Templar region of the South Aveyron.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Owlseyes

Parfitt searches in several nations (Zimbabwe*,Israel, Ethiopia...) the Ark of the Covenant. He makes also some allusions on the genetic relationship between the Ethiopian Falasha people and the Jews; and the Jews and the Lemba people: the "black Jews" of Southern Africa. Still looking for. -C......more

Goodreads review by Fiona

Tudor Parfitt's epic twenty-year quest for the lost Ark of the Covenant is a real page-turner! According to the Bible, the Ark contained the Ten Commandments given to Moses and possessed a divine, awesome power. It was used by the ancient Israelites in battle and, by Bible accounts, had the devastat......more

Goodreads review by Dean

It was mildly interesting. I try to keep an open mind about people's claims that they did wonderous things, such as finding the Ark of the Covenant in this case. But it didn't convince me. Is it true? Maybe. The book gives a fair amount of history of the Ark. However, there was way, way, way too many......more

Goodreads review by Jen

I really wanted to like this book. I had seen an article referencing Parfitt's book on Black Jews and when I went to get it from the library, my search also turned up this work. After reading his first, much more scholarly work, I was excited to see how an academic would approach the search for a ho......more

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