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A real-life Indiana Jones

May 17th, 2008 Sarah - Alicia Ashman

Everyone ready to go see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull when it opens on May 22?*

If you can’t wait, or you’re waiting for it to come to the cheap seats (see you there!), consider picking up a copy of The Lost Ark of the Covenant: Solving the 2,500 Year Old Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark, by Tudor Parfitt, to hold you over.

Billed as a “real-life Indiana Jones,” Parfitt is a professor of Jewish studies and an intrepid explorer in his own right.  In this book, he details his lengthy search for the artifact Indiana Jones first sought: the Ark of the Covenant, which once contained the hard copies of the Ten Commandments. 

It’s an adventurous read, much of it set in Africa, and filled with a wide variety of characters (some trustworthy, some not).  And how does it end?  Do they find the Ark?  Or does the book have the same ending as the original Indiana Jones movie?  You’ll just have to read it to find out…

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