> > > Most of the times in the old testment when you get a lot of information on how to, say, build an Arc of the Covenant, that is the Priestly (or 'P') author at work. Most of the book of Leviticus is information that was important to the Preists, and not much use to any one else. While step by step instructions for building an arc and its tent is cool trivia, I don't think it is really important.
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> > Except that, years later, when college students constructed one for themselves, they found it had a lot of power all on its own, such that is destroyed stuff until they destroyed it. And an engineer who knew nothing about the experiment did some calculations and came to the same conclusion.
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> > In short, it was a miracle that there were High Priests who went near it and survived.
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> Huh? Engineers building an ark? At first I thought you were talking about powerful plasma arcs or something like that. But no...
> You seem to be suggesting that by using clear-cut blueprints straight from Torah, some college students once were able to build an Ark of the Covenant. Which just happened to be conveniently destroyed thereafter. Along with all their experimental process notes too, which is why no one dares to replicate it?
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> Wolf "honestly Nyp -- I never know when you're jest joshin'" spirit

Well, I doubt you could create a weapon by following the directions in the Bible. After all, the key ingredient, the shards of the Ten Commandments, are missing.

But on a side note, a saw a thing once that suggested the Arc was actually a primitive, yet powerful, battery. It was one of those A&E/History Channel/Discovery documentary things. Quite interesting actually.

Speed'Still, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc is my favorite Jones movie'ball