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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Seir Sinai
  • Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 06:11:45 -0500

George,

You are right. A realist should tend to think that the events of mount Sinai are typical of a volcanic area.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Mar 8, 2010, at 1:24 AM, George Athas wrote:

The current Sinai Peninsula is usually seen as the general region in which Mt Sinai is located. However, if this is the case, there is a slight inconsistency in that Sinai is associated with the region of Midian. The region of Midian is located in northern Arabia, not in the Sinai Peninsula. So this leaves us with three options regarding the location of Mt Sinai:


1. It was located in northern Arabia where Midian was.
2. Midian was much larger than we have thought to date and included parts of the Sinai Peninsula on the other side of the Gulf of Aqaba.
3. The various texts which talk about Sinai/Horeb are geographically inconsistent, with one text placing it in the Sinai Peninsula and another in northern Arabia.

Given these options, I think it's safe to say that we really do not know precisely where Sinai was.

GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au
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