Where Is Mount Sinai? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Where Is Mount Sinai? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Perhaps the Mount Sinai of the Bible is not the traditional site located in Egypt, but another mountain in modern Saudi Arabia, whose volcanic nature would help explain the miracles described in Exodus. Last month it was reported that the ancient monastery of St Catherine at Mt Sinai is to be nationalized by the Egyptian government. The site was first occupied by Egyptian monks in the fourth century—the traditions asserting that the first chapel…