Though Raiders of the Lost Ark is among my favorite movies of all time, I wasn’t aware that any of it was based on real people. Sure, many fictional works are based on real people, so I wasn’t totally surprised by this revelation. The following story sounds eerily similar to the movie, and it’s happening today, really, non-fiction:

But Jones is not alone in his search. Barry Roffman, an Orthodox Jew and a Lieutenant in the U.S. Coast Guard and author of Ark Code, believes that the Torah codes he has discovered can unlock the secret of the Ark`s location, and his findings are very different from those of Vendyl Jones. According to Roffman, there are maps encoded in the Torah. Key site names are encoded in such a way that the angles between Jerusalem, Arabic sites and a suspect Egyptian Ark site correspond to actual course headings on real world maps. The site, which he describes as 31 degrees 9 minutes North, 33 degrees 4 minutes East, is where a cloud of fire blocked the Egyptian army from the Israelites before we crossed the Sea of Reeds (Yam Suf) at Lake Bardawil in Northern Sinai, Egypt.

So will it be Jones or Roffman (or neither) who finds the Ark of the Covenant first? Vendyl Jones has written about where he thinks the Ark is located (see Vendyl Jones Research Institute). There’s 30 minutes of audio with Mr. Roffman discussing his mathematical approach for locating the true position of the Ark. He was called up for the Iraq war, so it seems his research is on hold but he wants to get a TV crew to travel with him, sort of Geraldo Rivera style, to see if the Ark is located where he believes it to be.

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