Researcher Paul Hubbard rejects Tudor’s Ark claims Zimbabwe displays ‘Ark of Covenant replica’Įxcerpt from the book: ‘The Lost Ark of the Covenant’ Read more: The largest collection of links about the Lemba, the Ark and Tudor Parfitt on the web And that sometimes, stories dismissed as myth can turn out to be true.īy CR. That PR coups and movie-tie ins help academics to sell books. That if you want to pass knowledge down the ages, frown on marriage outside of your tribe.
The tale of the Lemba and the Ark tells us that:Īncient cultures travelled more widely than modern cultures may realise. Drums are revered objects in many cultures. Tudor may really be onto something… but maybe it’s not Ark shaped. Talking to the Today programme in the USA, Tudor said: “A fair person would say there really is something here”. Paul Hubbard from the Prehistory Society of Zimbabwe rejected Tudor’s claims on the basis that Tudor’s ‘Ark’ that resembles a drum is actually a drum – a sacred Venda African drum and does not have Jewish origins. In his earlier book written about the Ngoma Lungundu, Von Sicard examined the parallels between the Ngoma Lungundu story and the Old Testament story of the Israelite Ark of the Covenant.īut Tudor has gone further and drawn criticism for suggesting that the drum may be an Ark or at least a direct descendant of the vessel constructed to hold the original tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.Ĭritics remind him that Biblical accounts do not suggest the Ark resembles a drum. He says the vessel was built almost 700 years ago and may have included the remains of the original Ark. Three years ago, on a forgotten shelf in a museum Tudor rediscovered the Ngoma Lungundu and had a fragment carbon dated. Ngoma Lungundu was found by Von Sicard in the 40’s, and then lost. In Lemba oral tradition stories relate that they carried a vessel, their Ngoma Lungundu (The drum of the ancestors), into Africa from a great temple in Jerusalem. So the Lemba have Jewish origins, but are they guardians of the Ark? This may sound suprising, but see the links below for more information about the African Jews – many tribes claim Jewish connections. Genetic tests confirmed that the Lemba are physical descendants of the lost tribe of Israelites known as the Cohen. Using new technology, Tudor and other researchers have proved that the Lemba’s stories about their Jewish past may have a basis in fact. The Lemba seem to follow many Jewish customs, including circumcision, not eating pork and Lembas are encouraged to marry within their own tribe of 80,000 or so. Their story is not new – in the 1950’s missionary Von Sicard wrote about the Lemba – but it is fascinating. The Lemba people are black Africans, based in Zimbabwe, who claim Jewish ancestry. His life’s work has been about tracking down the lost tribes of Israel in Africa and Asia. Tudor Parfitt is Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at the school of Oriental and African Studies in London. Is there any truth to Tudor Parfitt’s tale? In his ‘The Lost Ark of the Covenant’ book he told us that the ancestors of the Lemba people of South Africa and Zimbabwe carried the Ark away from Jerusalem then hid it in Africa. In 2008 scholar Tudor Parfitt popularised one of the lesser known Ark stories.
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In recent times the hugely popular movie Raiders of the Lost Ark renewed public interest. The Ark of the Covenant was lost.īut the Ark is an object of fascination and importance to many, so stories of its survival have circulated for two thousand years or so. In 586 BC, the Babylonians entered Jerusalem and destroyed Solomon’s Temple.
“And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.” Unfortunately, the men of Bethshemesh were curious: The Ark was set in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite. So the Philistines sent it back to the Israelites. Later, when captured by the Philistines it broke a statue of their God Dagon and made the Philistines ill, giving them hemorrhoids or maybe tumors. It played a part in the Battle of Jericho – helping to knock down a city wall. The Ark had power – Kings consulted it, people were forbidden to look at it. Why is the Ark still important, still talked about?Īccording to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant contained the tablets of the Ten Commandments, the word of God.
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