Kebra Nagast
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The Kebra Nagast, or The Glory of the Kings, is a 14th-century national epic of Ethiopia, written in Geʽez by Nebure Id Yeshaq of Aksum. In its existing form, the text is at least 700 years old and pu
Illustration to the Kebra Nagast, between 1965 and 1975
Ark of the Covenant
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The Ark of the Covenant, also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God, was a religious storage chest and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites.
Kebra Nagast
…reliable work. The text contains an account of how the Queen of Sheba (Queen Makeda of Ethiopia) met king Solomon of Jerusalem and about how the Ark of the Covenant came to Ethiopia with their son Menelik I (Menyelek). It also discusses the conversion via missionaries of Ethiopians from the worship of the Sun, Moon…
Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark (c. 1900) by James Tissot
Ark of the chapelle de l'Adoration (Église Saint-Roch, Paris).
The Philistine captivity of the Ark depicted in the Dura-Europos synagogue
Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant by Benjamin West, 1800