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| Most people think that "Mount Sinai" refers to a specific mountain in the Sinai desert. However, the etymology and context both appear to indicate that the term [[her]] [[cini]] refers instead to a wide mountainous area in the region of [[cin]]. | 'cini' is typically translated as "Mount Sinai". Most people think that "Mount Sinai" refers to a specific mountain in the Sinai desert. However, the etymology and context both appear to indicate that the term [[her]] [[cini]] refers instead to a wide mountainous area in the region of [[cin]]. |
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| The site currently called "Mount Sinai" is also known as "Jebel Musa" in eastern Egypt, does not particularly match any of the textual descriptions, nor is there archeological or biblical evidence to support the particular hill as special in any way. | The site currently widely recognized by pilgrims as "Mount Sinai" is also known as "Jebel Musa" in eastern Egypt, does not particularly match any of the textual descriptions, nor is there archeological or biblical evidence to support the particular hill as special in any way. |
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| "although we are told that the sacred mountain was somewhere in the Sinai Wilderness— an area which includes eastern Egypt, together with southern Israel and Jordan— the Bible does not directly reveal its whereabouts. There are hundreds of mountains in the Sinai Wilderness, an area of over fifty thousand square miles."((Graham Phillips)) | "although we are told that the sacred mountain was somewhere in the Sinai Wilderness— an area which includes eastern Egypt, together with southern Israel and Jordan— the Bible does not directly reveal its whereabouts. There are hundreds of mountains in the Sinai Wilderness, an area of over fifty thousand square miles."((Graham Phillips)) |
