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  2. Mount Sinai - Wikipedia

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    It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the Torah, Bible, and Quran, Moses received the Ten Commandments. It is a 2,285-meter (7,497 ft), moderately high mountain near the city of Saint Catherine in the region known today as the Sinai Peninsula. It is surrounded on all sides by higher ...

  3. Gabal Sin Bishar - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  4. Mount Sinai (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Saint Catherine's Monastery - Wikipedia

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    Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was built between 548 and 565, and is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The monastery was built by the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I , enclosing what is claimed to be the burning bush seen by Moses .

  6. Sinai Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The peninsula acquired the name Sinai in modern times due to the assumption that a mountain near Saint Catherine's Monastery is the Biblical Mount Sinai. [2] Mount Sinai is one of the most religiously significant places in the Abrahamic faiths. The Sinai Peninsula has been a part of Egypt from the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (c. 3100 BC).

  7. Not just a book: What is a Gutenberg Bible? And why is it ...

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    “A Bible is now sort of a book on the shelf,” McQuillen said. “But at one point, this was a very personal object”. “In a museum setting, they become art and a little bit distanced, but ...

  8. Hashem El Tarif - Wikipedia

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    The James Cameron-produced History Channel special, The Exodus Decoded, suggests that this location, now in an Egyptian military zone, is the best candidate for the biblical Mount Sinai. The program claims that it not only features "biblical geographical" clues, but that it also possesses three important traits described in the Book of Exodus:

  9. Taberah - Wikipedia

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    The traditional location of Mount Sinai has been rejected by the majority of scholars, as well as theologians, who favour a location at Mount Seir [7] [13] or in north western Saudi Arabia, [14] [15] Other writers have proposed locations in the Negev, [16] or the central or northern Sinai desert. [17]