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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... kilometers northwest of Jebel Musa . Most Jabaliya adults dismiss a ten - year - old boy's claim that he saw a leopard in 1981 8 kilometers west of Jebel Musa in Wadi Abu Za'atar . In 1987 two Jabaliya men claimed to have found a donkey ...
... kilometers away . Pilgrims were most anxious to see the places where Christ was born , lived , and most especially died , and was buried , and was resurrected - although these lay 3,500 kilometers from Madrid , 3,250 kilometers from ...
... kilometers away on the summit of Jebel ' Abbas Pasha and at Mahmuud Mansuur's Abu Dagash garden in Wadi Itlaah . An Egyptian - built microwave tower on the Plain of ar - Raaha permits inter- national telephone calls to be made from the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Five | 14 |
YOU WILL WORSHIP GOD ON THIS MOUNTAIN | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Managing Sacred Sites: Service Provision and Visitor Experience Myra Shackley,Myra L. Shackley No preview available - 2001 |