In a remarkable fusion of ancient tradition and modern craftsmanship, a meticulously constructed replica of the biblical Ark of the Covenant was showcased in Jerusalem during the Sukkot holiday. The display, which took place at the prestigious King David Hotel, featured the golden vessel housing a Holocaust-surviving Torah scroll from Thessaloniki, Greece.Who knows how close this replica is to the original Ark of the Covenant, assuming there was one that was anything like the biblical description? But its creators seem to have put a lot of work into representing what the Ark described in the Bible could have looked like.[..]
For many, many PaleoJudaica posts on the Ark of the Covenant, start here and follow the links. For an overview, see here. For efforts to determine the original structure and appearance of the Ark, see here, here, and here (and, indirectly, here).
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