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Toto · 05-30-2010, 11:36 AM

‘Vatican to accept that Mt. Sinai is in Negev, not Egypt’ 'I‘m sure Karkom is the real mountain of God,’ Prof. Emmanuel Anati declares.

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Jewish tradition puts the Exodus around the year
1313 BCE. According to Catholic tradition, Helena of Constantinople – the mother of Emperor Constantine credited with finding the relics of Jesus’s cross – determined the location of Mount Sinai and ordered the construction of a chapel at the site (sometimes referred to as the Chapel of Saint Helen) in about 330 CE.

According to Anati, however, an abundance of archeological evidence showed that Mount Karkom had been a holy place for all desert peoples, and not just the Jews, which substantiated his case.

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Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Israel Finkelstein, a world-renowned expert on the subject, said he could not accept Anati’s hypothesis.

"I do not see any connection between the third millennium BCE finds at Har Karkom and the Exodus story. The latter was put in writing not before the 7th or 6th centuries BCE, and as such depicts realities which are many centuries later than the finds of Har Karkom," Finkelstein told the Post. "Roaming the desert with the Bible in one hand and the spade in the other is a 19th-century endeavor which has no place in modern scholarship."

Doug Shaver · 05-31-2010, 06:42 AM

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According to Anati, however, an abundance of archeological evidence showed that Mount Karkom had been a holy place for all desert peoples, and not just the Jews, which substantiated his case.

Oh, lessee here . . . . This mountain was sacred to all desert peoples. Therefore, it is the place where God talked to Moses. Hmmm. Quite obviously, I am missing something very important.

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Originally Posted by Prof. Israel Finkelstein

Roaming the desert with the Bible in one hand and the spade in the other is a 19th-century endeavor which has no place in modern scholarship.

A big amen to that.

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