Seventy Elders
1310 BCE–1240 BCE · Biblical · Mount Sinai (Wilderness)
The Seventy Elders of Israel were appointed by Moses at God's command to share the burden of leadership and prophecy with him in the wilderness (Numbers 11:16–25). According to rabbinic tradition, they became the prototype for the later Sanhedrin. In a miraculous moment at the Tent of Meeting, God's spirit rested upon them, and they prophesied. Rabbinic sources emphasize their role in establishing the foundations of Jewish communal governance and legal authority, though the biblical and Talmudic accounts of their specific deeds and teachings are sparse. They are revered as the first link in the chain of oral transmission (Mishna Pirkei Avot 1:1) that passed Torah from Moses through the prophets to the Men of the Great Assembly.
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Mount Sinai (Wilderness)Wilderness of Sinai
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About Mount Sinai (Wilderness)
Mount Sinai (Har Sinai, also called Horeb) is, according to the Torah, the mountain in the wilderness where God revealed Himself to Israel and gave the Torah to Moses after the Exodus; the tradition is also honoured in Christianity and Islam. Its original location is uncertain and several sites have been proposed, but since late antiquity it has been identified with Jabal Musa, a 2,285-metre peak in Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula. Christian monks were living there by the late fourth century, and the Byzantine emperor Justinian built St Catherine's Monastery at its foot in 548–565; it is often described as the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. Ascetic writers such as John Climacus, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent, lived there.
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