This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...SERBAL is the scriptural Mount Sinai. They have united to declare that Mount Serbal was identified with Mount Sinai by the Christians of the fourth and fifth centuries, and that the present so-called Mount Sinai only became considered to be so, in the sixth century after Christ, when Justinian erected his monastery of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...SERBAL is the scriptural Mount Sinai. They have united to declare that Mount Serbal was identified with Mount Sinai by the Christians of the fourth and fifth centuries, and that the present so-called Mount Sinai only became considered to be so, in the sixth century after Christ, when Justinian erected his monastery of St. Katerin on the mount to which it has given name. The proofs which were decisive to the mind of M. Lepsius we must leave his readers to explore. Mr. Forster draws his conclusions from the varied and carefully studied information of travellers, concerning the localities of the Sinaitic inscriptions. If then we inquire where these are mainly to be found, Mr. Forster believes they mark the route by which Moses indicates that the people came out from Egypt to Serbal. Various travellers agree in the report that, commencing near Suez, the Wadys Wardan, Maghara, Mokatteb, Feiran, and Aleyat, are all full of them, and the last, "Wady Aleyat" leads up to the five-peaked SERBAL, whose two easternmost summits, according to Burckhardt and Dr. Stewart, are covered with inscriptions. Ruppell finds them on the second peak from the west; Stanley saw them on the top of the third or central peak; and Mr. Pierce Butler especially tells us that innumerable inscriptions clothe the northern side of the mountain. " The Wady Aleyat," he says, " is one vast chaos of ruins, of rocks precipitated from the face of the mountaint above by some great convulsion of nature. The face of the perpendicular summit towers 2000 feet in height above this mountain-valley (see frontispiece), which Stewart describes as five miles in extent, and thinks to have been that portion of the wilderness where the tribes were gathered at the foot of the mount. Fr...
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