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To: cuz_it_aint_their_money
Moses' Ark?????

COFFEE!!!! My Kingdom for coffee!!!

What an embarrassing error. Thanks for catching it and cluing me in.

NOAH!!! It was NOAH's Ark . . . . (and Bill Cosby did a whole routine about it decades ago)
10 posted on 04/27/2004 3:53:37 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Repeal CFR NOW!!)
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To: DustyMoment
Yer welcome!
Noah? How long can you tread water? Loved that bit!
11 posted on 04/27/2004 3:56:53 AM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money (24 years of Snarlin Arlen's Liberalism is enough! Vote Pat Toomey for U.S. Senate!)
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To: DustyMoment
NOAH!!! It was NOAH's Ark . . . .

Well, yes, the Bible story and most of the legends identify what we now call Mt Ararat as the mountain where Noah's Ark came to rest. There are some competing traditions identifying other modern mountains as the Mount Ararat of the Bible.

The main thing, however, is that there is an Ark that could be called "Moses' Ark." It's the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark with the tablets, or fragments of the tablets, that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai (which Mount Sinai, you may ask?). And it disappeared from the Temple in Jerusalem, as well as disappearing from the Bible, in Old Testament times.

There are many traditions about what became of The Ark. The Indiana Jones Tanis story is one that has been popular in the Coptic tradition. There is the Ethiopian tradition (which places it in a specific Jewish Temple there that is over 2,000 years old and in continuous use). And one that I heard actually claims that it is secreted in a sacred place on (drum roll please) Mount Ararat.

So who knows if this was a typo or a divinely inspired slip?

13 posted on 04/27/2004 4:14:55 AM PDT by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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