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Gag Gifts, Occasion Gifts - Searching for the Ark of the Covenant: Latest Discoveries and Research
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Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 296.493
EAN: 9780736910521
ISBN: 0736910522
Label: Harvest House Publishers
Manufacturer: Harvest House Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2005-02-15
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Studio: Harvest House Publishers
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Noted researcher and popular speaker Randall Price explores the Ark’s mysterious past, its explosive significance today, and its pivotal role in the end times. Exclusive photographs and charts, interviews with leading Middle East authorities, and years of meticulous research provide a factual inside view of one of history’s most fascinating quests. Readers will find answers to such important questions as... - Does the Ark still exist?
- Why is it so important?
- Could the discovery of the Ark trigger the rebuilding of the Temple?
The search for the Ark of the Covenant has fired the imaginations of archeologists and Bible readers through the ages—and the pursuit continues to intensify with the news that the Temple could soon be rebuilt in Jerusalem.
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Comment: Let me sum up the book for you. The Ark is safe in the Temple Mount beneath the Holy of Holies, but you shouldn't look for it, instead you should spend your time searching for Jesus (the out-of-the-blue Jesus sales pitch on the very last page). His conclusion is based mostly on a story told to him by rabbis who went looking for it recently but didn't find it. Let's hear it for gut feelings. The Author does a good job derailing bogus theories of its location, while completely ignoring Oak Island (just one of many extraordinary possibilities for an extraordinary loss), or delving deep into the Crusaders time in Jerusalem (who may have attained it). Discounting the real Ark being in Ethiopia is easy...reading his awkward text is not. Lack of dates throughout the book make it difficult to know what time period he's speaking of. For a final laugh, enjoy the author's picture on the back cover.
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Summary: Interesting but Tedious!!
Comment: This is an excellent book for those interested in biblical topics, history, and archeology. However, at times I found myself "up-to-my-eyeballs" in facts! This is where the book really started to slow down. The endless scripture references, and other notes was frankly exhausting. Dr.Price's book is more a textbook than an average read. Now please don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the book. It's just something you might want to read a little at a time.
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Summary: Searching for the Ark of the Covenant
Comment: Lots of information tends to be as much as a story book as Informative book well ballanced reading very interesting holds your attention.
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Summary: Excellent Review of the Ark
Comment: Price gives a concise, yet detailed review of what the Bible has to say on the ark as well as the history of searches for the ark. He covers everything from the myths surrounding the ark, to the wild unsubstantiated claims of people like Ron Wyatt and Graham Hancock. A must for archaeology buffs.
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Summary: Fantastic, readable, scholarly - you wont want the book to end
Comment: It is really exciting to see what happens when a well-trained scholar writes historically and Biblically based texts that answer deep burning questions. This is one of those books.
The author takes a very exciting, almost thriller-story style, to the exploration of possibilities about the location of the Ark of the Covenant. He leaves few stones unturned, and ha a nice balance where he does not get caught up too much in wild, un-provable conjectures. He follows the facts, interviews the experts, and is a refreshing breath of fresh air on the subject.
He is very careful to separate myth and legend from fact. Yet he does this in a way that if someone like Michael Creighton (author of Jurassic Park) wrote this book. It is a real page turner, and you might forget that this is a scholarly treatise. It is similar in style to other books he has written such as "The Stones Cry Out" (which I also highly recommend).
Dr. Price also provides a wealth of information from Jewish writings that prove quite useful. For example, he researches the Talmud and the apocryphal writings for clues. He is careful not to exalt these documents above the Scripture itself, but uses them to see how the idea of the location of the Ark and its function has developed over history. This is a unique strength of the book, and I would like to see more Christian authors make use of these Jewish writings such as the Talmud.
In addition, Dr. Price also gives serious academic rebuttals to popular theories about the location of the Ark (such as the Ethiopia conjecture) or the careless claims of those who claim to have seen the Ark (such as the late Ron Wyatt). Dr. Price offers sound Biblical evidence as to why these theories are improbable, and backs it up with detailed historical facts.
In all I think you will find this to be a very readable and pleasant romp through the history of a topic very important to Christians and Jews alike. Messianic believers in particular might find this very interesting because of the use of Talmudic sources. And Dr. Price is also a refreshing breath of fresh air in that he does not support "Replacement Theology", which is a theory that somehow the Church ahs replaced Israel. This theory has sometimes led to wild conjectures about the ark, which can be shown Biblically to be a strained interpretation at best. But in general anyone who has asked the question, from a religious or historical perspective, "What happened to the Ark of the Covenant," will not be disappointed.
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