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    <title>lost Ark of the Covenant</title>
    <subTitle>solving the 2,500 year old mystery of the fabled biblical ark</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Parfitt, Tudor.</namePart>
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    <publisher>HarperOne</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009, c2008</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2009</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st HarperCollins paperback ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>380 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 21 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>A professor of religious studies traces his adventurous search for the Ark of the Covenant, a life-threatening quest during which he received assistance from a host of secular and political supporters.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Cave -- Sign of his kinship -- Protocols of the priest -- City of the dead -- Key to the past -- Opposites are one -- First cataract -- Legends of the Queen of Sheba -- Tomb of Hud the prophet of God -- Moses gene -- Fire of God -- Sacred fire pot -- Watchdogs of the king -- Dust of its hiding place.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Tudor Parfitt.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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    <geographic>Temple Mount (Jerusalem)</geographic>
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    <topic>Quests (Expeditions)</topic>
    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
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    <geographic>Africa</geographic>
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    <topic>Travel</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BM 657 P229l 2009</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">296.493</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780061371042 (pbk.)</identifier>
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