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Stuart Munro-Hay (1947–2004)

Auteur van The Ark of the Covenant

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Stuart Munro-Hay is among the foremost Western authorities on Ethiopian history and culture. He has participated in archaeological expeditions there and made frequent research visits to different areas of the country. This guide is the result of a lifetime's study of this still mysterious country.

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Munro-Hay, Stuart Christopher Hay
Geboortedatum
1947-04-21
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2004-10-14
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Munro-Hay is a recognized expert on Axum, and he is an expert on the Ark of the Covenant too. Here, in a posthumous work, he painstakingly tracks down all references to the ark in contemporary Ethiopian chronicles and literature, comparing them to contemporary accounts of neighbors and visitors, to come to a startling conclusion. The Ethiopians do NOT have the Ark of the Covenant. Their own legends start with a stone slab type of object, associated with the Tablets of Moses, definitely, and evolves into the Ark as a whole. Munro-Hay posits that the new Christian dynasty (the Solomonic dynasty) of Ethiopian kings in the 1600s used the ark as a sort of national propaganda object. Munro-Hay does leave the door open to the possibility of some connection between the Israel of the Bible and Ethiopia, and maybe, just maybe, some ancient relic resides still in Axum. Munro-Hay notes, however, that any wood object, however gilded, would probably have rotted to dust in the humid climate of the Ethiopian Highlands. So it's probably not the Ark of the Covenant. But, if it were some sort of Coptic altar, stone slabs, or even the Ten Commandments once writ by God and carried by Moses, it would go a long way in explaining why the Ethiopian Orthodox Church reveres the slab-like tabot in every church.

Munro-Hay sleights Graham Hancock, in a polite, British way. You get the feeling Hancock didn't do his research all too well.

Some neat pictures, but needed more. One map, but it needed a better one. Or more. Needed a set of dynastic timelines too. It was hard keeping every king and prince in Ethiopia in order. Good footnotes, but no bibliography. Good documents in the appendix. Serviceable index.

What's in that little chapel in Axum, Ethiopia? Who knows? Who can know? But... Munro-Hay reprints a section of a 1998 New York Times article on Axum and the Ark of the Covenant where the ark's guardian seems to refer to slabs, not a box-like ark:

"Instead, they [the guardians] say their ark is a white stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments and kept in a shallow solid-gold case.... [...] They said the tablet is about 2 1/2 feet long and 1 1/2 inches thick and is housed in a gold box three inches thick, with a hinged lid and no designs.... [...] The monks said the relic seemed to have paranormal powers. They said that at night it sometimes appeared to give off light. They also said it was hard to look at the tablet in daylight because it was so smooth and mirrorlike."
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