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THE SEARCH FOR THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD
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One of the greatest enigmas in biblical research has been the location of Mount Sinai, the Mountain of God, on which Moses the Lawgiver encountered Yahweh in the form of bushing bush of fire and was given the Ten Commandments, which were inscribed on two tablets of stone. Graham Phillips explores the biblical story behind the Mountain of God and follows the clues offered in the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament, and concludes that Mount Sinai was situated, not in the Sinai peninsula as has been believed since early Christian times, but hundreds of miles away in the ancient city of Petra in southern Jordan. |
Here is to be found Jebel Madhbah, a prehistoric high place which matches exactly the description of the Mountain of God as specified in the Bible. No other candidate fits all the evidence, leading to the conclusion that the mountain's true location was not only ignored by the early Jewish writers, but was also deliberately written out of the Jewish holy book, the Torah. Graham explains why and paints an entirely new picture of the development of the Moses story so familiar to biblical history.
Graham Phillips is one of Britain's leading historical writers, having tackled and re-interpreted such mysteries as the historical King Arthur, the search for the Holy Grail, the tales of Robin Hood and the true character of Shakespeare. In his 1998 book ACT OF GOD, Graham compared the plagues of Egypt with the volcanic eruption of Thera, which he believes occurred at the beginning of the Amarna age. The book also supported the notion that the incumbent in the Valley of the Kings' Tomb 55 was the pharaoh Smenkhkare. Graham's latest book, THE MOSES LEGACY, explores the subject matter to be presented at his exclusive lecture for the 2002 Questing Conference.
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