Willow Peak
Willow Peak or Ras es-Safsafeh (Arabic: رأس صفصافة) is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula. The mountain peak overlooks Saint Catherine's Monastery, and is situated approximately 1km to the west.
Christian tradition considers the mountain to be the biblical Mount Horeb.
References
- ^ Manley, Deborah; Abdel-Hakim, Sahar (April 2009). Traveling Through Sinai: From the Fourth to the Twenty-First Century. American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-977-416-281-7.
- ^ Tenney, Merrill C. (10 August 2010). The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 5: Revised Full-Color Edition. Zondervan Academic. p. 1157. ISBN 978-0-310-87700-4.
Christian tradition generally claims Ras es-Safsaf as the Biblical Horeb and Jebel Musa as Sinai.
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