Ephod and Ark: A Study in the Records and Religion, of the Ancient Hebrews (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The present state of knowledge and critical opinion regarding both the ephod and the ark of our Old Testament is extremely unsatisfactory.

The so-called ark of the Covenant is still wrapped in mystery. What was it? Where did it come from Where did it go to P The later Deuteronomistic diaskeuasts 1 and the Priestly source of the Pentateuch 2 do indeed pretend to tell us what it was and where it came from; but critics very properly reject their statements as un historical. Yet while the Priestly tabernacle has long since been consigned to the limbo of imaginary institutions which never in fact existed, the ark refuses to be dealt with so summarily. For the most ancient historical records in the Old Testament bear unimpeachable witness to the existence of such an object at the very beginning of the Israelitish monarchy.3 On the other hand, when once the post exilic statements have been discarded, the greatest divergence of opinion prevails as to what the object so designated actually was, whether in respect to its form or its function, to say nothing of the remoter questions of its origin and ultimate fate.

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