Mount Sinai - ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ
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A mountain in the Sinai Peninsula.
Place Type
mountain
Location
- Coordinates
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- Lat. 28.58771° Long. 33.921682°5
Descriptions
A mountain in the Sinai Peninsula.
“An important Christian pilgrimage site in late antiquity as it was believed to be the place where Moses received the ten commandments from God. Justinian erected a fortified monastic complex between 548 and 565. Gregory, patriarch of Antioch from 570 to 592, was archimandrite of this monastery prior to his accession as patriarch.” 7
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- 1 Sebastian P. Brock et al. (eds.), The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 8, 49, 59, 77, 89, 96, 146, 173, 174, 193, 197, 210, 220, 230, 240, 262, 285, 317, 335, 359, 408, 448.
- 2 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, Berule bdire d-ʿal yulpone suryoye hdire, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani, 2nd ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 548.
- 3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, al-Luʼluʼ al-manthūr fī tārīkh al-ʻulūm wa-al-ādāb al-Suryāniyyah, 4th ed. (Holland: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 512.
- 4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd rev. ed. (Piscataway,NJ: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 567.
- 5 http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746815
- 6 Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-ʿilmiyya, 1990), p: III:341.
- 7 Oliver Nicholson, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)., p: 1388.
- 8 Ernest Walter Brooks, Iohannis Ephesini historiae ecclesiasticae pars tertia, CSCO Syr. III.3 (Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1935-1936), p: 50, chapter: 3.1.41.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Mount Sinai
— ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ
” last modified February 16, 2024, http://syriaca.org/place/563.
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Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Mount Sinai — ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ .”, edited by ., edited by David A. Michelson et al.. Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portal, 2024. Entry published February 16, 2024. http://syriaca.org/place/563.About this Entry
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Additional Credit:
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by Daniel L. Schwartz
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by William L. Potter
- Record validation, normalization, and revisions for the second edition (2.0) by David A. Michelson
- Data merging, Pleiades and Wikipedia linking, and XML by Thomas A. Carlson
- Data from John of Ephesus added by Silvio Roggo