Mount SinaiAmid the high mountains of Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula stands Jebel Musa, "Mount Moses," revered by most Christians and Muslims as Mount Sinai. (Jewish tradition holds that Mount Sinai should remain terra incognita, unlocated, and does not associate it with this mountain.) In this fascinating study, Joseph Hobbs draws on geography and archaeology, Biblical and Quranic accounts, and the experiences of people ranging from Christian monks to Bedouin shepherds to casual tourists to explore why this mountain came to be revered as a sacred place and how that very perception now threatens its fragile ecology and its sense of holy solitude. After discussing the physical characteristics of Jebel Musa and the debate that selected it as the most probable Mount Sinai, Hobbs fully describes all Christian and Muslim sacred sites around the mountain. He views Mount Sinai from the perspectives of the centuries-long inhabitants of the region--the monks of the Monastery of St. Katherine and the Jabaliya Bedouins--and of tourists and pilgrims, from medieval Europeans to modern travelers dispirited by Western industrialization. Hobbs concludes his account with the recent international debate over whether to build a cable car on Mount Sinai and with an unflinching description of the negative impact of tourism on the delicate desert environment. His book raises important, troubling questions for everyone concerned about the fate of the earth's wild and sacred places. |
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... Gulf of Suez Gulf of Aqaba Strait of Gubal Sharm ash - Shaykh Ras Muhammad 8 Mount Sinai rocks , the geologist's " circular dike. 32 E 33 Mediterranean Sea 34 ° Lake Manzala Port Said Lake Bardawil al - Ariish Ismailiya Great Roads ...
... Gulf of Suez , and the Gulf of Akaba were , at the Exo- dus period , intersected by watercourses where these are now marked by dry river beds ; and that these regions provided pastures for cattle . " 18 Rain sometimes falls heavily and ...
... Gulf of Suez just south of modern at - Tur , or modern Ismailiya.38 Baal- Zephon may have been just southeast of modern Suez , between the Great Bitter Lake and Suez , west of the modern Suez canal at the southern tip of Lake Manzala ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Five | 14 |
YOU WILL WORSHIP GOD ON THIS MOUNTAIN | 32 |
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Managing Sacred Sites: Service Provision and Visitor Experience Myra Shackley,Myra L. Shackley No preview available - 2001 |