Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai
Egyptian Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, romanized: Gabal Mūsā; Arabic: جَبَل مُوْسَى, romanized: Jabal Mūsā; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ, romanized: Ptoou Sina; Classical Syriac: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ d-Sīnayy; Ancient Greek: Ὄρος Σινά, romanized: Oros Sina; Latin: Mons Sinai; Hebrew: הַר סִינַי‬, romanized: Har Sīnay
	Mount Sinai as seen from the southwest
Highest point
Elevation	2,285 m (7,497 ft)
Prominence	334 m (1,096 ft)
Coordinates	28°32′21.9″N 33°58′31.5″E / 28.539417°N 33.975417°E
Naming
Native name	طُوْر سِيْنَاء (Arabic); Ṭūr Sīnāʾ (Arabic);
Geography
	Mount Sinai Sinai, Asian part of Egypt

Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינַי‎ Har Sīnay; Aramaic: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ Ṭūrāʾ dəSīnăy; Coptic: Ⲡⲧⲟⲟⲩ Ⲥⲓⲛⲁ), also known as Jabal Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَىٰ, translation: Mountain of Moses), is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the sacred scriptures of the three major Abrahamic religions (Torah, Bible, and Quran), the Hebrew prophet Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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 peaks in the mountain range of which it is a part. For example, it lies next to Mount Catherine which, at 2,629 m or 8,625 ft, is the highest peak in Egypt.^[4]

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "Sinai Geology". AllSinai.info. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2006-08-29.

[Vetus_Testam.-1] 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.

[JNES_2014-2] 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.

[JBL_2003-3] 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.

[4] "Sinai Geology". AllSinai.info. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2006-08-29.

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