Biblical Mount Sinai
The Biblical Mount Sinai is that mountain, received the Ten Commandments to the biblical tradition, according to Moses by God. The location of the mountain is unclear, but he is mostly identified with the so named as Mount Sinai on the peninsula. But there are different theories about the location of the mountain.
The biblical tradition reported from Mount Sinai that Moses here was handed over by God the oral and the written Torah ( Torah ). The Mount Sinai, the place of the event of God's revelation, especially the giving of the Ten Commandments, for example, 2 Mos 34 LUT. In Psalm 68.9 LUT God is almost equated with the Sinai Hebrew: " fenc Sinai " ( German: " the ( from ) Sinai ").
In Judaism, the exact location of the Biblical Mount Sinai was not passed on and a cultic complex near the place of revelation comparable to the various shrines mentioned in the Torah of Israel is not occupied. Only the church in Gentile-Christian tradition and Islam religious objects built on the mountain, which they held for the North Sinai.
Location of the mountain
On the situation of the mountain, there are different views: From the 4th century Christians placed him far mainly with a so -called Sinai summit on the peninsula same. At its foot mid-6th century arose the St. Catherine's Monastery - because the tradition is said to have taken place even in the biblical revelation of God in the burning bush to there. A minority of authors brings other mountains with the Biblical Mount Sinai at: This includes in particular the volcano Hala - ' l Badr. Still others see the 2580 meter high Jebel el- Lauz in northwestern Saudi Arabia the true Mount Sinai. Are also linked to partly also significantly different from the traditional view notions of geographical localization and the course of the Exodus events, including the traditional in the Bible 40 years of wandering in the wilderness of the people of Israel.
It is not clear also whether the biblical Mount Sinai is identical to the biblical Mount Horeb, where God appeared to Moses as the voice of a non- consuming fire in a bush, revealing his name.