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Sean Kingsley has pursued the artifacts to the point he believes he knows where to find them.
God's Gold
A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem
By Sean Kingsley
HarperCollins. 336 pp. $26.95
Reviewed by Richard Di Dio
Philadelphia Inquirer - Sunday, September 16, 2007
The boundary between quest and obsession is not defined until it is crossed. By then it is too late - and extremely perilous. This is inevitable when the search is for some of the most precious and potentially explosive objects in the world: religious icons that, if found, will further agitate the roiling cauldron that is the Middle East.
In God's Gold: A Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem, archaeologist Sean Kingsley provides a dramatic account of his personal journey in search of the golden menorah, silver trumpets, and jewel-covered Table of Divine Presence taken from the Second Temple of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. These iconic artifacts were spirited away by the Roman emperor Vespasian and his son, Titus, during the razing of Jerusalem that followed the First Jewish Revolt. Back in Rome, the treasures became the centerpiece of a massive victory parade, the report of which can still be read 2,000 years later as intricate carvings on the Arch of Titus.
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