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Dr Sebastien Rey, director of the British Museum’s project in Iraq, said: “It is like the precise measurement we see in the Bible in a much later period, those of the Arc, or the Temple of Solomon.”

They mean Ark, as in covenant, not Arc, as in triomphe.

14 thoughts on “Telegraph doesn’t have subs any more”

  1. British teachers used to wheel in the telly and VCR on a trolley and show you Raiders of the Lost Ark while they had a pre-Christmas drinky doos in the staff room.

    So at least you learned from Indy.

  2. Steve,

    “So at least you learned from Indy.”

    Bring a pistol to a sword fight. Don’t go try talking to God if you’re bad guys.

    On the other hand, he’d be on the Sex Offender’s Register today.

  3. Questions for scholars: since Solomon didn’t exist how can there have been a Temple of Solomon?

    Ditto Moses and the Ark of the C?

  4. Of course Solomon existed. That Stacey bird off of the telly is named after him. Duh.

    I once saw it explained on the Big Bang Theory that Indy actually was totally superfluous to the story. The Nazis would have still got the Ark, taken it to the island opened it and then died all melty-face.

  5. “It is like the precise measurement we see in the Bible in a much later period, those of the Arc, or the Temple of Solomon.”
    That sounds like a typical historians misunderstanding of measurements worked before mass production. Generally there were no standard measures because they weren’t needed. Although they might have a standard would apply in commerce over that region of commerce.
    So the Ark or the Temple of Solomon. Probably the cubit? Length of the forearm? Most likely with the former, the forearm of the geezer who made it. Plus his own increments for smaller. For the Temple of Solomon, maybe the designer or the bloke in charge. A standard isn’t important. It’s the relationship between all the parts make up the whole that has to be correct. It’s like a carpenter replacing a door. He measures the frame with whatever units he uses & makes the door to those measures so it fits. He doesn’t need to know what measures the carpenter made the frame used.
    So no. The Bible does not contain precise measurements. There would be no metric connects the Ark with the Temple.

  6. @dearieme
    One has to understand religious logic. Something probably existed. To explain it, some possibly imaginary character’s name was attached to it. Thus it becomes the Temple of Solomon & by having existed proves the existence of Solomon. Simples!

  7. “He chose poorly”
    Applicable to so much these days, especially our government and its penchant for ‘picking winners’.

  8. Bloke in the Fourth Reich

    I think there is at least one nutter, sorry, person freely disposing of their own money as one should, out there attempting to reconstruct the first Ark from the biblical measurements, to prove that you can fit two of every land-dwelling animal in there, and it floats under those circumstances.

    Whether there is storage space for food for 40 days and 40 nights, I have no idea.

  9. Whether there is storage space for food for 40 days and 40 nights, I have no idea.

    Does the Old Testament specify whether all the animals came out two-by-two, or just a pair of very well-fed lions?

  10. Otto…

    Probably my favourite episode, I got what Amy Farrah-Fowler said straight away. I can’t watch Raiders anymore, the Last Crusade however…

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