Post by Zadkiel on Jan 12, 2016 19:46:04 GMT
The peninsula that today is called "Sinai" got that name only after the Byzantines had mistakenly begun to identify God's Mountain with Jabal Musa, which, however, is not named after Moses, but rather a monk called Musa. More and more researchers now think that the real site of God's Mountain must be in the ancient kingdom of Midian on the eastern shore of the Red Sea, which today constitutes the northwestern corner of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This area has several candidates, but it is only the now extinct volcano Bedr that meets all the Biblical and un-Biblical criteria that have been used to describe God's Mountain.
