Mount Hor

Coordinates: 30°19′01″N 35°24′25″E / 30.31694°N 35.40694°E / 30.31694; 35.40694
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For the mountain in state of Vermont of the United States, see Mount Hor (Vermont).
Jebel Harun near Petra, Jordan. One of the candidates for biblical Mount Hor, with a Byzantine monastery and a Mamluk mosque dedicated to Aaron's tomb.

Mount Hor (

Israel. The first Mount Hor is especially significant to the Israelites, as Aaron the high priest, brother of Moses
, died there.

Mount Hor in Edom

Jebel Harun ('Mount Aaron') near Petra

This Mount Hor is situated "in the edge of the land of Edom" (Numbers 20:23, 33:37) and was the scene of Aaron's divestiture, death and burial. The exact location of Mount Hor has been the subject of debate.

Jebel Harun

Based on the writing of

Byzantine Monastery of Aaron.[citation needed
]

Jebel Madara

Some investigators from the mid-19th until the beginning of the 20th century dissented from this identification: for example,

Kadesh Barnea), near the modern border between Israel and Egypt. Among others who favor this location are Wilton (The Negeb, 1863, pp. 127 ff.), de:Frants Buhl (Die Geschichte der Edomiter, 1893, p. 23), G.B Gray (A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Numbers, p.270) and Bruno J. L. Baentsch (Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers [1900–03 in German as Exodus – Leviticus – Numeri], p. 572.)[citation needed
]

Other sites

Mount Uhud north of Medina has a shrine similar to the mosque on top of Jebel Harun that is connected by tradition to the life of Aaron.[4]

Another site is in the Sinai, where some 2 km northwest from Saint Catherine's Monastery both Muslim and Christian shrines stand at the top of a hill.

ziyara, a procession to the monastery accompanied by sacrificing of camels, which took place until the Six-Day War.[4]

Northern Mount Hor

Another Mount Hor is mentioned in the

Rabbinic writings also declare Amanah a boundary of the land of Israel, saying "What constitutes the Land [of Israel], and what constitutes [the places] outside the Land [of Israel]? All that which inclines itself and drops down [precipitously] from Turos Amanus and inward (i.e. towards its south) is the Land of Israel. From Turos Amanus and outward (i.e. towards its north) are [places] outside the Land [of Israel]."[7][8][9][10]

Mount Hor is also called Amanah, and is known as Mount Manus in the Jerusalem Targums, and Umanis in Targum Jonathan.

Mount Amanus
in southern Turkey.

See also

References

  1. ^ Antiq. 4:4:6.
  2. ^ Miettunen, Päivi (2004). Darb Al-Nabī Hārūn: The veneration of the prophet Hārūn in the Petra region – Tradition and change 1812 - 2003 (Thesis). MA thesis, Semitic Studies. University of Helsinki. Archived from the original on 9 December 2004. Retrieved 6 July 2009.Chapter 5.2 "The Shrine", pp.36-38 for the mosque.
  3. ^ R.A.S. Macalister, "Hor, Mount", in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.)
  4. ^ a b c d e Miettunen (2004), 5.1 History of Jabal Hārūn, and other sites connected to Hārūn, p. 36.
  5. ^ Joseph H. Hertz ed. (1988). The Pentateuch and Haftorahs: Hebrew Text English Translation and Commentary Edition: 2, Soncino Press
  6. ISBN 978-88-7653-143-9
    . In the Second Temple period, when Jewish authors were seeking to establish with greater precision the geographical definition of the Land, it became customary to construe "Mount Hor" of Num 34:7 as a reference to the Amanus range of the Taurus Mountains, which marked the northern limit of the Syrian plain. (p. 205, note 98)
  7. Hallah
    2:11 (p. 99)
  8. ^ Wells & Calmet 1817, p. 316, Canaan.
  9. ISBN 978-0-520-22675-3
    . Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  10. ^ Cf. Mishnah (Shevi'it 6:1)
  11. ^ Wells, E.; Calmet, A. (1817). "Amanah". Sacred geography; or, A companion to the Holy Bible. Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible (Revised ed.). Charlestown: Samuel Etheridge, Jr. p. 276f. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  12. ^ Schwarz, Joseph (1969). A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine. Translated by Isaac Leeser. New York: Hermon Press. pp. 40, 55. (reprint of A. Hart: Philadelphia 1850)

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hor, Mount". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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