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To: SunkenCiv

looks very unassuming


60 posted on 02/18/2014 8:29:58 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL

It’s a lump of rock in a landscape that is a lump of rock, just like every other lump of rock in that same landscape. They are unremarkable. Mount Seir was identified by Charles Beke as Mount Sinai in the second half of the 19th century, but the location of Mount Seir also varies. Beke identified it as Jebel-e’-Nur in Arabia, but he was looking for a volcano (he was of the school of thought that Sinai was a volcano, hence the pillar of smoke by day, fire by night) and Jebel-e’-Nur wasn’t one.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Jebel-e%27-Nur


61 posted on 02/18/2014 8:46:38 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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Another proposed Sinai, just over the border from Israel, but in this shot it doesn't look like a mountain at all -- 30°20'N,34°20'E
63 posted on 02/18/2014 8:55:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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