Mount Sinai (Bible)
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Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינַי, Har Sīnay) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to the Hebrew prophet Moses by God, according to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.[1][2][3] In the Book of Deuteronomy, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Horeb.[1] "Sinai" and "Horeb" are generally considered by biblical scholars to refer to the same place.[1][4] Mount Sinai is considered one of the most sacred locations by the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.[1][2][3]
The exact geographical position of Mount Sinai described in the Hebrew Bible remains disputed.[1] The high point of the dispute was in the mid-19th century.[a] Biblical texts describe the theophany at Mount Sinai,[1][3] in terms which a minority of scholars, following Charles Beke (1873), have suggested may literally describe the mountain as a volcano.[b]
- ^ a b c d e f Gray, John (January 1954). "The Desert Sojourn of the Hebrews and the Sinai-Horeb Tradition". Vetus Testamentum. 4 (1). Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers on behalf of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament: 148–154. doi:10.1163/156853354X00136. ISSN 1568-5330. JSTOR 1515877.
- ^ a b Rubin, Uri (April 2014). "Moses and the Holy Valley Ṭuwan: On the Biblical and Midrashic Background of a Qur'ānic scene". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 73 (1). Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 73–81. doi:10.1086/674614. ISSN 1545-6978.
- ^ a b c Yadin, Azzan (Winter 2003). "קול as Hypostasis in the Hebrew Bible". Journal of Biblical Literature. 122 (4). Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature: 601–626. doi:10.2307/3268068. ISSN 0021-9231. JSTOR 3268068.
- ^ Coogan, Michael David. The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures. Oxford University Press, USA, 2017: p. 108.
- ^ Manginis, George (2015). "Pillar of Fire or Dust? Jabal Mūsā in the nineteenth century". Proceedings of the Multidisciplinary Conference on the Sinai Desert. Multidisciplinary Conference on the Sinai Desert. Proceedings of the Multidisciplinary Conference on the Sinai Desert – via Academia.edu.
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