The “Wilderness of Zin” is reported as being ... Mount Sinai lost its holiness after the Torah was given because it was the Torah that lent the mountain its holiness.

Despite the transition two years ago from Israeli to Egyptian stewardship, nothing important has changed in the ”great and terrible wilderness,” as the Sinai is so aptly described in Deuteronomy.

And on Oct. 7, a car bomb exploded in El Tor — far from Mount Sinai but close enough to hurt: it was the first strike in Sinai’s heavily guarded, tourist-dependent south. The monks may have ...

Most Christians seem to think that the location and identity of this mountain is certain — that there is a Mount Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula, and that’s that! In fact, it’s not absolutely ...

ST. CATHERINE’S, EGYPT — At St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Egypt’s Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by low electrical humming, as an early manuscript is ...

Whether this is Mount Sinai and the winter solstice phenomenon the burning bush “is in the eye of the beholder,” Mr. Shilo said. “But,” he added, “it’s a great myth, you have to admit ...