Author:
Parfitt, Tudor
The Ark of the Covenant, sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, was built to contain the stone tablets given to Moses on Mt. Sinai. It disappeared from Jerusalem's Temple during the Babylonian invasion in 586 BC. Through painstaking scholarship, genetic science, and hair-raising fieldwork - with the help of Kabbalistic mystics, Muslim holy men, charlatans and crooks, tribal elders and scheming politicians - British professor Tudor Parfitt debunks centuries of myth and rumor to reveal the shocking history of the Ark and its keepers. 320 pp.