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View OF Mount Sinai (as opposed to the view FROM Mount Sinai) Archived 2020-10-10 at the Wayback Machine; Information about the town of St. Katherine and the Sinai mountains; A Report on Mount Sinai; Old maps of Mount Sinai. Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, The National Library of Israel
Mount Sinai, showing the approach to Mount Sinai, 1839 painting by David Roberts, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. The biblical account of the giving of the instructions and teachings of the Ten Commandments was given in the Book of Exodus, primarily between chapters 19 and 24, during which Sinai is mentioned by name twice, in Exodus 19:2; 24:16.
Some scholars have suggested the icon at Sinai could have been a possible representation of the Kamouliana icon of Christ [11] or of the famous icon of Christ of the Chalke Gate, [12] an image which was destroyed twice during the first and second waves of Byzantine Iconoclasm—first in 726, and again in 814—and thus its connection with the ...
Gabal Sin Bishar (also called Jebel Sin Bishar or Mount Sin Bishar) is a mountain located in west-central It was proposed to be the biblical Mount Sinai by Menashe Har-El , a biblical geographer at Tel Aviv University in his book The Sinai Journeys: The Route of the Exodus . [ 1 ]
Article on the Orthodox Church of Mount Sinai by Ronald Roberson on the CNEWA web site; The Albanian Script: The Process – How Its Secrets Were Revealed [St. Catherine's], Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:3 (Autumn 2003), pp. 44–51. Map showing the Monastery, 18th century. Eran Laor Cartographic Collection. The National Library of Israel
In Galatians 4:24–25, Mount Sinai is mentioned: "One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children." Mount Sinai/Horeb is also alluded to in Hebrews 12:18–21. [24]
Jesus' ministry begins when after his baptism, he returns to Galilee and preaches in the synagogue of Capernaum. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The first disciples of Jesus encounter him near the Sea of Galilee , and his later Galilean ministry includes key episodes such as Sermon on the Mount (with the Beatitudes ) which form the core of his moral teachings.
The wilderness of Sin or desert of Sin (Hebrew: מִדְבַּר סִין Mīḏbar Sīn) is a geographic area mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as lying between Elim and Mount Sinai. [1] [2] Sin does not refer to the moral concept of "sin", but comes from the Hebrew word Sîn, the Hebrew name for this region. [3]