Mount Sinai (Wilderness)

Wilderness of Sinai

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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