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Bookmark or Share- Wilderness Wanderings: Where is Kadesh? - Biblical Archaeology SocietyMoses then led Israel toward the mountains farther south, camping at Mount Sinai. There God’s people received the Law, built the tabernacle, and offered sacrifices. In the second year, they went north through a “great and fear-inspiring wilderness,” the journey to the area of Kadesh (Kadesh-barnea) apparently taking 11 days.
- where is mount sinai Archives - Biblical Archaeology SocietyWhere is Mt. Sinai? At a 2013 colloquium in Israel, an international group of scholars debated the question. At the center of the debate was Har Karkom, a mountain ridge in the Negev Desert that archaeologist Emmanuel Anati believes to be the Biblical Mt. Sinai.
- Who Was Moses? Was He More than an Exodus Hero?Generations later the biblical Moses draws the extended family together in the form of a nation with a structure and code of law, given to him on Mount Sinai. Below, Peter Machinist explores the story of Moses, the Exodus hero, in “The Man Moses”.
- The Exodus: Fact or Fiction? - Biblical Archaeology SocietyThe Judahite tribes did NOT go to Sinai peninsula. The welfare of the livestock of the tribes was paramount. Moses knew every pasture and well in Midian having lived there as a sheep herder for Jethro for over 10 years. There are NO trees or bushes on Mt Sinai.
- Madaba: The World’s Oldest Holy Land MapVarious reconstructions likewise differ on the locations that would have been present on the original map. Conservative estimates place the northern border on the Phoenician coast and the southern border at Mt. Sinai and the Egyptian city of Thebes. This would have roughly followed the borders of the Promised Land described in Numbers 34:1–12.
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