{"id":939,"date":"2025-10-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamishna.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:31:54","slug":"arca-alianza-segundo-templo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lamishna.com\/en\/arca-alianza-segundo-templo\/","title":{"rendered":"The last secret of the Temple: Where rests the Ark of the covenant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe greatest mystery of the Temple is not what was, but what was left to contain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. The historical problem: why is it an enigma<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the <strong>First Temple<\/strong> (Solomon), the Ark is the absolute center of the Holy of Holies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the books of the bible that tell the <strong>the rebuilding of the Temple after the exile<\/strong> (Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah). <strong>not to mention that the Ark has become<\/strong>, or manufacturing, or for your transfer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In all the literature of jewish <strong>Second Temple period<\/strong> we (the Bible late, 1-2 Maccabees, Josephus, Qumran, Mishnah, etc) <strong>it never appears a story that is believable that the Ark was inside the Second Temple<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the same time, there are <strong>traditions very strong<\/strong> the Ark <strong>it was not destroyed<\/strong>, but <strong>hidden<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence the \u201cenigma\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Historically, all indicate that the Holy of Holies of the Second Temple <strong>it contained the Ark<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Traditionally, many insist that the Ark <strong>there is still<\/strong>, only <strong>hidden<\/strong> or <strong>out of scene<\/strong> until the messianic times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. What it says in the Hebrew Bible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2.1 Latest mentions of the Ark<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The last mention of clara in <strong>2 Chronicles 35:3<\/strong>when king Josiah commanded the levites that <strong>put the Ark in the Temple of Solomon<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>After Josiah<\/strong>in the stories of the fall of Jerusalem and the exile (2 Kings 24-25; 2 Chronicles 36; Jeremiah), <strong>not narrates what happens to the Ark<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The list of objects looted by Babylon (cups, utensils, etc) <strong>no mention of the Ark of the explicit form<\/strong>, which is already in the antiquity fed the idea that <strong>it had been hidden before the destruction<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2.2 Silence in the reconstruction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In Ezra and Nehemiah, which describes the <strong>reconstruction of the Temple<\/strong> and the reestablishment of the cult, are mentioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>altar, sacrifice, and the levites, holidays...<br>But <strong>there is no mention of the construction or the presence of the Ark<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At the level of purely historical\u2013literary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Bible <strong>not stated in any place<\/strong> the Ark has been in the Holy of Holies of the Second Temple.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Testimonies of the Second Temple period<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3.1 2 Maccabees: Jeremiah hides the Ark<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The text deuterocan\u00f3nico of <strong>2 Maccabees 2:4-8<\/strong> tells us that <strong>the prophet Jeremiah<\/strong> he received an oracle, led <strong>the Tent, the Ark and the altar of incense<\/strong> the <strong>mount where it went up Moses (Nebo)<\/strong> and <strong>hid them in a cave<\/strong>by sealing the entrance, and declaring that <strong>will be hidden until God gathers his people and show his glory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If one takes 2 Maccabees as historically reliable, the conclusion is clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>At the time of the rebuilding of the Temple, <strong>the Ark would be hidden in the mount Nebo<\/strong>not in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3.2 Josephus: a Holy of Holies empty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Flavius Josephus, a priest and a witness of the destruction of the Second Temple, described the building in <em>The War of the Jews<\/em>. When we speak of the <strong>Holy of Holies<\/strong>says explicitly that <strong>on the inside, \u201cthere was nothing at all\u201d; it was an inaccessible space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is to say, for a priest of the first century:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Holy of holies of the Second Temple <strong>it contained the Ark, or any other visible object<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3.3 jewish Tradition about the \u201cStone of Foundation\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Mishnah Yom\u00e1 5:2<\/strong> describes the Holy of Holies in the era of the Second Temple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cSince I was removed from the Ark, <strong>there was a stone since the days of the early prophets<\/strong>, call <strong>\u2018Stone of Foundation\u2019 (<em>Even ha-Shetiy\u00e1<\/em>)<\/strong>raised three fingers on the ground, <strong>and on it put the High Priest brazier<\/strong> (with coals) on Yom Kippur.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The same tradition is repeated in sources talmudic and modern studies on the <strong>Rock of Foundation<\/strong>, identified with the rock under the Dome of the Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conclusion of these sources rabbinical:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>Ark was no longer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your place marked <strong>a rock\/stone<\/strong>, which became the rite of Yom Kippur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. The liturgy of Yom Kippur without Ark<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Torah (Leviticus 16), the High Priest was to sprinkle the blood <strong>\u201cbefore the mercy seat\u201d<\/strong>, that is to say, on the lid of the Ark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Second Temple, according to the Mishnah Yom\u00e1, the rite fits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Since <strong>do not spray it on the mercy seat<\/strong>, but <strong>in front of the stone<\/strong> where was supposed to be the Ark in the First Temple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This implies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Explicit recognition<\/strong> the Ark <strong>was not present<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the same time, <strong>continuity of the place<\/strong>: it keeps the <strong>exact point<\/strong> where would have been the Ark, and mark it with the stone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Holy of Holies retains its <strong>maximum holiness<\/strong>, although <strong>materially is empty<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cNo Ark and without mercy seat, and the Holy of Holies remained the center of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Rabbinic traditions about the fate of the Ark<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Within the rabbinic literature and posrab\u00ednica there are multiple lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5.1 Ark hidden beneath the Temple Mount<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A tradition that is very widespread (Talmud, midrashim and later rabbinic literature in medieval and modern) argues that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Solomon<\/strong>, to build the First Temple, it would have prepared <strong>underground chambers, secret<\/strong> to hide the Ark in case of danger.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Towards the end of the period of the First Temple, the king <strong>Josiah<\/strong>in anticipation of the destruction, I would have commanded <strong>hide the Ark down there<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In this line, it says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Ark <strong>remains hidden \u201cin your place\u201d<\/strong> \u2014in an underground enclosure under the Holy of Holies\u2014 and will be revealed in the messianic era.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>From this perspective:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>In the Second Temple, the Ark was not visible in the Blessed<\/strong>, but <strong>it was still present \u201cbeneath\u201d<\/strong> symbolically.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The High Priest served on the <strong>Stone Foundation<\/strong>, which was <strong>about<\/strong> the whereabouts hidden from the Ark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5.2 Ark hidden by Jeremiah (jewish version 2 Maccabees)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Although 2 Maccabees is deuterocan\u00f3nico in canon christian, <strong>the tradition of Jeremiah hiding the Ark<\/strong> it is also reflected in the sources of jewish subsequent return to that reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here, the emphasis is on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Ark is <strong>outside of Jerusalem<\/strong>in a remote place (Mount Nebo or other).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do not play any role is physical in the Second Temple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5.3 Other variants rabbinical<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In some sources, there are references to it more generic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>That the Ark was <strong>hidden by the priests<\/strong> before the site babylonian.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or it was removed to an unknown place by divine order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>But the common point is always the same:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>It is not in the Holy of Holies of the Second Temple.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Testimonials are not jewish and christian tradition primitive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6.1 The episode of Pompey<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Later authors, supported by Josephus, remember when <strong>Pompey<\/strong> (63. e. c.) he entered the Temple, he wanted to see the Holy of Holies, and found him <strong>empty<\/strong>, which surprised him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reinforces:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the eyes of an external observer <strong>he had not Arca or any object<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The character \u201cmysterious\u201d of the empty space was already visible to the pagans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6.2 Readings christian theological<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In a good part of the christian tradition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The absence of the Ark in the Second Temple is interpreted as <strong>symbol of the withdrawal of the divine presence (shechinah)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christ (or the christian community) is seen as the <strong>\u201cnew Ark\u201d<\/strong> where dwells the presence of God.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>tearing of the veil<\/strong> after the crucifixion shows that the Holy of Holies was already \u201cempty\u201d in the sense of both material and spiritual.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond the theological evaluation, to your question, what is relevant is that also this tradition <strong>assume that the Ark was not there<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7. Consensus academic modern<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Historiography and archaeology today, working with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bible Hebrew<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deuterocanonical (2 Maccabees)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Josephus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mishnah, Talmud and midrash<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Archaeological data of the Temple Mount (very limited for political and religious reasons)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>arrive almost unanimously to three basic points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Ark disappears from the documented history with the fall of the First Temple.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>There is No historical evidence or archaeological reliable that has been placed in the Second Temple.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Holy of Holies of the Second Temple was empty<\/strong>unless the <strong>Stone Foundation<\/strong>, which marked the former site of the Ark.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, for the academy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>No<\/strong>: the Ark was not in the Holy of holies of the Second Temple.<br>There was a <strong>holy space empty<\/strong> that worked liturgical and symbolically as the Holy of Holies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>About the ultimate fate of the Ark (destroyed, hidden under the Temple Mount, hidden by Jeremiah, Ethiopia, etc), the consensus academic is that <strong>there is no evidence testable<\/strong>; are <strong>traditions and legends<\/strong>interesting from the point of view of religious and cultural, but <strong>not verifiable historically<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8. Main hypotheses as to the whereabouts of the Ark<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To close the map of the debate, these are the great lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Destruction or loss during the conquest babylonian<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hypothesis more sober historically.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Ark would have been destroyed, melted, or loss without registration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hidden under the Temple Mount<\/strong> (rabbinic tradition classical)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Preparation of secret chambers by Solomon.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Josiah (or priests) the hiding there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the Second Temple: Holy of Holies empty, but <strong>the Ark would \u201cunder\u201d<\/strong>, invisible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hidden in the Mount Nebo by Jeremiah<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Version 2 Mac 2:4-8.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implies that the Ark <strong>you no longer have physical relationship with the Second Temple<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Other traditions later<\/strong> (Ethiopia, Templars, etc)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Very late and without support in the sources of the Second Temple period.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have value more mythical\u2013religious history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9. Theological implications and symbolic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From the point of view of the theology of jewish Second Temple and rabbinic later:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Holiness is not dependent on an object (the Ark), but of the place<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Holy of Holies, preserving the maximum kedush\u00e1 even if it is empty.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Stone Foundation<\/strong> it is the focus: the place where it was supported the Ark, where God created the world, where Abraham offered up Isaac, etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Transformation of the cult<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The sacrifice of Yom Kippur is done <strong>without Ark<\/strong>adapting the rite.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This shows a <strong>flexibility liturgical<\/strong> to preserve the biblical structure in conditions changed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shift of emphasis towards the Torah, prayer, and the halachah<\/strong>:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>After the destruction of the Second Temple, rabbinic judaism can go ahead <strong>without the Ark, without a Temple and without sacrifices<\/strong>but with:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Torah study<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prayer sinagogal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Life halachic daily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>That is to say, the \u201cemptiness\u201d of the Ark in the Second Temple anticipated, in some way, the possibility of judaism <strong>dematerialized object sacred central<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10. Synthetic answer to the question<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If we ask the question in precise terms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>What in the era of the Second Temple was physically the Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of holies?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer, supported by primary sources and current research, is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Historically and according to the sources of the period: no.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Josephus describes a Holy of Holies empty.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Mishnah and the Talmud describes the service of Yom Kippur, on a rock, not on the Ark.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Biblical texts late not to mention your return.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Traditionally, since the jewish faith: the Ark was not visible or accessible, but not necessarily had ceased to exist.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For some, it was <strong>hidden under the Temple Mount<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For others, <strong>hidden by Jeremiah abode in the Mount Nebo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, what we \u201cknow\u201d about the riddle is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>There was No Ark in the interior of the Holy of Holies of the Second Temple.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Holy of Holies was an empty space whose holiness was sustained by the <strong>place<\/strong>, not by the object.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The various traditions about the fate of the Ark (under the Temple, Mount Nebo, destruction, etc) respond to <strong>needs theological, symbolic, and continuity<\/strong>rather than verifiable data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The current debate is no longer \u201cwhether or not it was in the Second Temple\u201d (there the consensus is negative), but <strong>where he went and what it means to your absence\/presence to the theology of judaism and, secondarily, christian<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Arca de la Alianza y el misterio del Segundo Templo<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[558],"class_list":{"0":"post-939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-qumran","8":"tag-arca"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>El Arca de la Alianza y el misterio del Segundo Templo - La Mishn\u00e1<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00bfEstuvo el Arca de la Alianza en el Segundo Templo? 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