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Identifier: biblemoderndisco1891harp (find matches)
Title: The Bible and modern discoveries
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Harper, Henry A
Subjects: Bible Jews -- History To 586 B.C
Publisher: London : A.P. Watt
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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d be inclined to interpret the passage thus : Theywere departed from Rephidim, or Feiran, and had reached thewilderness of Sinai—that is, the Sinai district at the mouth ofthe Nagb Hawa—and here they began to look out for a suit-able place for a permanent camp. The spot chosen was theplain of Er Rahah, And there Israel camped before themount. He also points out it is quite possible Moses andthe elders took the short route through the pass, leaving thehost to go the longer route. The professor and Sir CharlesWilson did this. I did it years after, and got to Jebel Musa,walking, some hours before my camels. The host may alsohave travelled as Bedawin do : march six or eight hours, thenrest, and pursue their journey in the evening. Again, I havemore than once done a forced march in this way, and with-out much fatigue traversed ground that usually occupies twodays march. It is most tempting to try to describe Sinai—Ras Sufsafeh;but it has been done so thoroughly by the Ordnance Survey
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ISRAEL IN EGYPT. party, and by Professor Palmer, that I must pass it, only remark-ing that Sinai is a chain of mountains with many peaks, end-ing with a grand bluff, which fronts the plain of Er Rahah. Itmay be impossible to prove that Rds Sufsafeh be Sinai; butthe difficulties in the way of proving that are of no momentcompared to the difficulties attaching to the other mountainssuggested—such as Serbal, Umm Shummur, or Mount Hor :none other but the one named fits in with the Bible narrative.No other mountain in the peninsula has a plain at its footwhere a multitude could encamp; no other mountain hasvegetation in its front on which flocks and herds could feed,as the Bible tells us they did at Sinai; and if we go to Arabtraditions, all are in favour of Ras Sufsafeh. Difficulties whichthe student at home may feel are no difficulties to one whohas explored this region of Sinai; and the opinion of all thosescientific observers of the Ordnance Survey was that RasSufsafeh was the Mount

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