Taberah
According to the Book of Numbers, Taberah (Hebrew: תבערה) is one of the locations which the Israelites passed through during their Exodus journey.[1] The biblical narrative states that the place received its name, which means the pӀace of burning,[2] because the fire of the LORD had burned there in anger because of their continued complaints. The text states that the fire first burned at the outskirts of the Israelite camp, killing some of those who lived on the edge of the group, but it was extinguished when Moses prayed on the people's behalf.[3]
According to
Deuteronomy,[8] which textual scholars ascribe to the deuteronomist, and consequently date to over two centuries later than the Jahwist and Elohist, and also later than the combined JE text.[9]
Taberah is described by the
Early Bronze Age (the early 3rd millennium BC).[12] The traditional location of Mount Sinai has been rejected by the majority of scholars, as well as theologians, who favour a location at Mount Seir[7][13] or in north western Saudi Arabia,[14][15] Other writers have proposed locations in the Negev,[16] or the central or northern Sinai desert.[17]
Citation
- ^ Numbers 11:1–3
- ^ Numbers 11:3
- ^ Numbers 11:2
- Peake's commentary on the Bible
- ^ a b Cheyne and Black, Encyclopedia Biblica
- ^ Numbers 33:16
- ^ a b Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ Deuteronomy 9:22
- ^ Richard Elliott Friedman, Who wrote the Bible?
- ^ Numbers 10:33
- ^ E.H. Palmer, The Desert of the Exodus: Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings (1872)
- ^ Itzhaq Beit-Arieh, Archaeology of Sinai, The Ophir Expedition, Tel Aviv University (2003)
- ^ Ditlef Nielsen, The Site of the Biblical Mount Sinai – A Claim for Petra (1927)
- Charles Beke, Mount Sinai, a Volcano (1873)
- ^ Jean Koenig, Le site de Al-Jaw dans l'ancien pays de Madian
- Har Karkom(2001)
- ^ Menashe Har-El, The Sinai Journeys: The Route of the Exodus