His interment was in Columbia's Polk Memorial Park Cemetery. Wyatt died on August 4, 1999, aged 66, in Baptist Central Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, following cancer. By the time of his death in 1999, Wyatt claimed to have discovered several sites and artifacts related to the Bible and biblical archaeology. From 1977 until his death in 1999 he made over one hundred trips to the Middle East, his interests widening to take in a wide variety of references from the Old and New Testaments. The resulting widespread speculation in evangelical Christian circles that this might be Noah's Ark started Wyatt on his career as an amateur archaeologist. Wyatt was working as a nurse anesthetist in a hospital in Madison, Tennessee, when in 1960, he saw a picture in Life of the Durupınar site, a boat-like shape on a mountain near Mount Ararat. It does not store any personal data.The Durupinar site, Na’hum Gemisi, in 2019 The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Religious communities claimed-and still claim in different ways-ownership of,Īnd continuity with, the traditions of Jerusalem. Intertwined history of the Jews, Christians and Muslims. Viewed, the story of the Lateran Ark of the Covenant belongs to the larger, It was aĭiscussion of legitimization that took place within communities both in RomeĪnd Jerusalem-all relating to the same sacred traditions and objects. Of the legitimization of sacerdotal authority in twelfth-century Rome. The Lateran Ark of the Covenant tells a story Sources reveal is that the claim of the Ark appears as an argument in aĭiscussion going on in both Jerusalem and Rome about the continuity of the old Gained importance for the Christians, after centuries of neglect. What I propose is that this argumentĪppears in the aftermath of the first Crusade, when the Temple site in Jerusalem Lateran as the Temple of the New Covenant. Ideological meaning of claiming the Ark at the Lateran. Recognized or studied this connection before.īesides tracing the transmission of the Descriptio, my book dives into the (the Dome of the Rock) in crusader Jerusalem. Literary similarities, between the Descriptio Several related) manuscript, all from monasteries in Flanders, and allĬoncerned with the First Crusade. ![]() Studying the BAV Reg.lat 712 and the Descriptio as it appeared in this (and Remember sitting in the Manuscript Reading Room in the Vatican Library and Then I discovered aĬonvincing connection between the Lateran and the holy city. Than as a literal reference from the Old Testament. In the beginning I was not very concerned about Jerusalem-more ![]() Manuscript transmission in Flanders and even to Jerusalem and the Dome ofĭescription of the Lateran from the twelfth century, Descriptio Lateranensis Ecclesia, which I also have edited at theĮnd of my book. Investigation brought me first of all to the Lateran Archive, but also to Wonder what this was all about, I found far more than I had expected. Traces can be found of these objects after this papal visit. Rods of Moses and Aaron were to be removed and no longer shown. It can still be seenĮnshrined above the sacrament altar in St John the Lateran. Table of the Last Supper should be kept for veneration. On the subsequent morning, he ordered that the I imagine him in his bed, perhaps with red ![]() The Ark was aĭecorated wooden chest covered with a cloth of silk. Of Aaron on display, together with the table of the Last supper. ![]() Visit at the Lateran and observed the so-called Ark of the Covenant, the rod of Moses and the rod In 1745 Pope Benedict XIV was on a pastoral
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