Where is the Real Mount Sinai? (The Journey Continues) | with Tim Mahoney
I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST
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The Real Mount Sinai Is in Saudi Arabia
The real Mount Sinai is in Saudi Arabia, rather than the Sinai Peninsula. It goes back to where did Moses flee, and that is the ancient land of Midian. In fact, that's the reason why Moses fled the Midian. He was fleeing to a distant family relative, very distant but it was still some group of people that he would have been familiar with. And he flees there. When we looked at the archaeology, and when scholars started looking at this, they could see that it appears that Midian is in on the right hand side of what today is now Saudi Arabia. So if anyone knows their maps, there's a Y there. On the right
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