* Ark of the Covenant, the consecrated container for the tablets of the Ten Commandments

* Blessed Virgin Mary ( Roman Catholic ), called the New Ark of the Covenant by Christians of the Catholic tradition

The Ark of the Covenant ( ʾĀrôn Habbərî < u > t </ u >, modern pron.

The city of Jericho was taken with no more than a shout after the Ark of the Covenant was paraded for seven days around its wall by seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams ' horns ( Josh.

Rashi comments on this verse that " The entire people will be so imbued with the spirit of sanctity that God's Presence will rest upon them collectively, as if the congregation itself was the Ark of the Covenant.

Carrying the Ark of the Covenant: gilded bas-relief at the Auch Cathedral

A number of Roman Catholic writers connect this verse with the Woman of the Apocalypse in, which immediately follows, and argue that the Blessed Virgin Mary is the " Ark of the New Covenant.

You are greater than them all O ( Ark of the ) Covenant, clothed with purity instead of gold!

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

The Chapel of the Tablet at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum allegedly houses the original Ark of the Covenant.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church claims to possess the Ark of the Covenant, or Tabot, in Axum, not far from the border with Eritrea.

The Kebra Nagast, composed to legitimise the new dynasty ruling Ethiopia following its establishment in 1270, narrates how the real Ark of the Covenant was brought to Ethiopia by Menelik I with divine assistance, while a forgery was left in the Temple in Jerusalem.

" The Abyssinians possess also the Ark of the Covenant ", he wrote, and, after a description of the object, describes how the liturgy is celebrated upon the Ark four times a year, " on the feast of the great nativity, on the feast of the glorious Baptism, on the feast of the holy Resurrection, and on the feast of the illuminating Cross.

On 25 June 2009, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abune Paulos, said he would announce to the world the next day the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which he said had been kept safe and secure in a church in Axum, Ethiopia.

In his book The Lost Ark of the Covenant ( 2008 ), Parfitt also suggests that the Ark was taken to Arabia following the events depicted in the Second Book of Maccabees, and cites Arabic sources which maintain it was brought in distant times to Yemen.

The Ark of the Covenant was said to be have been kept in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, surviving the pillages of Rome by Genseric and Alaric I but lost when the basilica burned.

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

Almost immediately after publication of the photographs of this sensational archaeological find some claimed that the Anubis Shrine could be the Ark of the Covenant.

The Biblical Ark of the Covenant is approximately 52. 5 inches long, 31. 5 inches wide, and 31. 5 inches high in the shape of a rectangular chest.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

The figure of Anubis itself contradicts any claim that Shrine 261 could be the Ark of the Covenant.

Amphibian Ark is an organization that was formed to implement the ex-situ conservation recommendations of this plan, and they have been working with zoos and aquaria around the world encouraging them to create assurance colonies of threatened amphibians.

The main focus of the site is the forum, The Ark, and there is also a ( seemingly defunct ) web zine.

Ark is a Latin-based word that means a " box " or container.

Aron Habrit ), also known as the Ark of the Testimony, is a chest described in Book of Exodus as containing the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed and pieces of manna.

The Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark is to be constructed.

A golden cover, adorned with golden cherubim, is to be placed above the Ark.

The Ark is finally to be placed behind a veil ( Parochet ), a full description of which is also given.

The Ark is next spoken of as being in the Tabernacle at Shiloh during Samuel's apprenticeship ( 1 Sam.

In 1 Chronicles 13: 3 it is stated that the people were not accustomed to consult the Ark in the days of Saul.

There is no record of what became of the Ark in the Books of Kings and Chronicles.

In Rabbinic Literature, the final disposition of the Ark is disputed.

The Ark is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and then numerous times in Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, I Chronicles, II Chronicles, Psalms and Jeremiah.

In the New Testament, the Ark is mentioned in the Letter to the Hebrews and the Revelation to St. John.

You are the Ark in which is found the golden vessel containing the true manna, that is, the flesh in which Divinity resides " ( Homily of the Papyrus of Turin ).

* Ark, the main character of the video game Terranigma

The main propositions of the Bull are the following: First, the unity of the Church and its necessity for salvation are declared and established by various passages from the Bible and by reference to the one Ark of the Flood, and to the seamless garment of Christ.

All the Transformers were rendered inactive in the explosion of the Ark II in 1999, but when they reactivated in 2001, Devastator was the main weapon in Megatron's attack on San Francisco.

Bernhard Rosenkränzer is the founder and main developer of Ark Linux and a contributor to various other free software projects such as KDE and OpenOffice. org.

Near the church was the White Lion and nearby on the main road at the south, there was the Noah's Ark, a coaching inn.

In Shining the Holy Ark, the father of Julian, one of the main characters of Shining Force III, disappears in Galm's Mansion.

Following a recurring role in Stargate Atlantis for three seasons ( 2004 – 2007 ), Carter became a main character in season 4 of Atlantis ( 2007 – 2008 ), and also appeared in the 2008 direct-to-DVD SG-1 films Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum.

Four million years later in 1984, the volcano that the Ark was wedged in erupted, jarring the Ark's main computer Teletraan I back online.

The main theme used is " The Raiders March ", composed by John Williams, from the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Its main office is located in the Ark Mori Building in Akasaka, Tokyo.

The Ark, formerly allowed a mere niche in the wall, was developed into the main architectural feature of the interior, and was flanked with columns, covered with a canopy and richly decorated.

The main Black Ark Upsetters became Boris Gardiner ( bass ), Mikey Richards, Sly Dunbar, Benbow Creary ( drums ), Earl " Chinna " Smith ( guitar ), Winston Wright ( keyboards ) and Keith Sterling ( keyboards ).

In the late 1960s, Ship breaking then became the main industry ; the British aircraft carriers HMS Centaur, HMS Bulwark, HMS Eagle, and HMS Ark Royal were all sent for demolition, as well as a number of other vessels, including HMS Mohawk and HMS Blake.