Biblical Tabernacle is Nothing Like What You Think Says Bible-Savvy Engineer

Eliyahu Berkowitz : Aug 23, 2016
Breaking Israel News

"The Tabernacle impressed the other nations. A six story tall geodesic dome would certainly do that." -Andrew Hoy

(Israel)—[Breaking Israel News] The Biblical Tabernacle, or Tent of Meeting, may not have been a modest rectangular tent as scholars have believed for centuries, but an enormous circular structure six stories tall, proposes a Wisconsin engineer who has spent years studying the intricacies of the Biblical texts describing the desert structure. (Image courtesy of Andrew L. Hoy/via BIN)

Andrew Hoy, a trained mechanical engineer from Milwaukee currently in Israel to investigate his theory, has developed a concept which challenges every known belief about the portable central structure Israel used to serve God for 400 years until the First Temple was built.

Hoy has a head for numbers and a passion for the Bible. Raised in the Lutheran Church, his personal journey led him to leave that church. He studied in yeshiva (religious seminary) in Jerusalem for a period, where he concentrated on learning Hebrew in order to study the Bible in its original form.

When Hoy read the sections in Exodus dealing with...

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