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  • From: "Sakari H�kkinen" <sakari.hakkinen AT sci.fi>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Arabia?
  • Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 15:13:14 +0300



Liz:

>Paul says that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia (Gal 4:25). What was
the concept of
>Arabia at that time? Did he have the same understanding of
the location of
>the Sinai as we do now? I ask this because of a curious
experience we had
>while in Damascus this fall. We were taken to an ancient
synagogue and told
>that this was the place where Elijah slept, and where he
prayed for death.
>I would have sworn that location was in the Sinai -- not
Damascus! What was
>considered the location of Mt Sinai/Horeb in the time of
Paul?


A few centuries later Epiphanius wrote that Ebionites lived
in Kokabe in the areas of Basanitis (Panarion 30,2.8-9).
This area in southern Syria is also called Arabia by him
(Panarion 30,2.9; 40,1.5).

With regards

Sakari

Sakari Hakkinen
University of Helsinki
Department of Biblical Studies
sakari.hakkinen AT sci.fi





  • Re: Arabia?, Sakari Häkkinen, 04/11/1999
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Arabia?, David C. Hindley, 04/11/1999

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