Biblical Mount Sinai

Moses with the Ten Commandments by Rembrandt in 1659.

The Biblical Mount Sinai is a mountain that was written about in the Old Testament. It was written by Moses that the Ten Commandments were given to him by God on Mount Sinai. The name Horeb is sometimes used to describe Mount Sinai. Tradition places it at Jebel Musa (Mount Moses) in the south of the Sinai Peninsula, but some see it as being further north at the Wadi Sudr.

Biblical Mount Sinai Media

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  Camels and members of David Roberts' travelling party resting before the approach to Mount Sinai (1839). Painting featured as a coloured lithograph in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia (Vol. 3), Wellcome Collection, London.

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  Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt with Ras Sufsafeh, traditionally considered either Mount Sinai or Horeb, in the background.

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  A mosque built at the top of Jabal Musa, in the Sinai Peninsula.

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  The Siq, facing Petra's Treasury, at the foot of Jebel al-Madhbah

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  A map of Midian 

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  Illumination of Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, from a late medieval Georgian manuscript (Nuskhuri script)

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  16th-century Georgian Orthodox miniature of Mount Sinai (Nuskhuri script)

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  Mount Sinai, painting by El Greco, 1570–1572

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  Mount Sinai illustrated by French cartographer Alain Manesson Mallet, 1719

Related pages

• Exodus
• Deuteronomy

Other websites

• Where is Mount Sinai
• The Lost Mountain, 1956-12-03, TIME Archived 2008-12-06 at the Wayback Machine