CrossLinks Topical Index - MT


MT : Masoretic Text - date
MT - Masoretic Text : Masoretic Text - date
Mt. Carmel : Mt. Carmel - monument - Saul
Mt. Carmel - monument - Saul : 1S. 15:12
Mt. Ebal : Mt. Ebal - alter upon ; Mt. Ebal - curse; Sychar - near Shechem
Mt. Ebal - alter upon : Deu. 27:4; Jos. 8:30

✪ See Mt. Gerizim - blessing.


Mt. Ebal - curse : Deu. 11:29; Deu. 27:4; Deu. 11:29; Deu. 27:13; Jos. 8:33; Gal. 3:10-13
Mt. Ebal - near Shechem : Sychar - near Shechem
Mt. Ebal vs. Mt. Gerizim : Deu. 11:29; Jos. 8:33

✪ See Mt. Ebal - curse, Mt. Gerizim - blessing. "Despite the mountain's heights (Ebal is 3,083 ft [940 m] and Gerizim is 2.890 ft [881 m], there are many contemporary accounts of people speaking from the slopes of he mountains and being heard in the valley below. Even with the noise of the busy modern city of Nablus, I myself have been in the park at the top of Gerizim and clearly heard the voices of children playing in the Balata refugee camp at Gerizim's base." David G. Hansen, Shechem: Its Archaeological and Contextual Significance, Ref-0066, Vol. 18 No. 2 (2005), p. 37. "In 1879, J. W. McGarvey made a tour of the Holy Land. His visit to the area of Nablus (biblical Shechem) is particularly interesting because of his acoustical test. Today tourists are not able to visit this area, and if they were, the urbanization of the area has made a similar experience impossible today. This section is from Lands of the Bible, originally published in 1880, pages 506-8 (emphasis added). A limited preview is available at Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=UxlR49W76CgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=mcgarvey+lands+bible&ei=vUInSau9LILeyATnr5HMAw#PPA506,M1] . . . Thanks to Paul Mitchell for discovering this nugget and sending it on. “On reaching Shechem we called on Brother El Karey, the only Baptist missionary in Palestine. I had a letter of introduction to him, given me by a Baptist preacher from London whom I met at Naples. He received us very cordially, explained to us his missionary labors, and, being a native of the place, though educated in England, he was full of the local information for which we were in search. We especially wanted to learn the best way to reach Aenon, the locality of which was definitely fixed by Lieutenant Conder, but which our dragoman had never visited. He gave us the desired information, and the next morning, leaving our tents pitched at Shechem, we made an excursion to that interesting spot. Our route took us back through the valley, and we resolved that while passing between the two mountains of Ebal and Gerizim, in the still morning air, we would try the experiment of reading the blessings and curses. It will be remembered by the reader that, in compliance with directions given before the death of Moses, Joshua assembled all the people on these two mountains, stationing six tribes on one, and six opposite to them on the other, and he stood between and read to them all the blessings and curses of the law (See Deut 27-28, Josh 8:30-35). It has been urged by some skeptics that it was impossible for Joshua to read so as to be heard by the whole multitude of Israel. It is a sufficient answer to this to show that while Joshua read, the Levites were directed to repeat the words “with a loud voice” (Deut 27:14), and that it was an easy matter to station them at such points that their repetitions, like those of officers along the line of a marching army, could carry the words to the utmost limits of the multitude. But it is interesting to know that the spot chosen by God for this reading is a vast natural amphitheatre, in which the human voice can be heard to a surprising distance. About half-way between Shechem and the mouth of the valley in which it stands there is a deep, semicircular recess in the face of Mount Ebal, and a corresponding one precisely opposite to it in Mount Gerizim. No man with his eyes open can ride along the valley without being struck with this singular formation. As soon as I saw it I recognized it as the place of Joshua's reading. It has been asserted repeatedly by travelers that, although two men stationed on the opposite slopes of these two mountains are a mile apart, they can read so as to be heard by each other. We preferred to try the experiment in stricter accordance with Joshua's example; so I took a position, Bible in hand, in the middle of the valley, while Brother Taylor and Frank, to represent six tribes, climbed halfway up the slope of Mount Gerizim; and Brother Earl, to represent the other six tribes, took a similar position on Mount Ebal. I read, and they were to pronounce the amen after each curse or blessing. Brother Taylor heard me distinctly, and I could hear his response. But Brother Earl, though he could hear my voice, could not distinguish the words. This was owing to the fact that some terrace-walls on the side of the mountain prevented him from ascending high enough, and the trees between me and him interrupted the passage of the sound. The experiment makes it perfectly obvious that if Joshua had a strong voice, -- which I have not, -- he could have been heard by his audience without the assistance of the Levites. As to the space included in the two amphitheatres, I think it ample to accommodate the six hundred thousand men with their families, though of this I cannot be certain. If more space was required, the aid of the Levites was indispensable.” " Todd Bolen, The Acoustics of Mounts Gerizim and Ebal [http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2008/12/acoustics-of-mounts-gerizim-and-ebal.html, accessed 20081218]


Mt. Gerazim : temple - Samaritan
Mt. Gerazim - Samaritan temple : temple - Samaritan
Mt. Gerizim : Mt. Gerizim - blessing ; Mt. Gerizim - curse; Sychar - near Shechem
Mt. Gerizim - blessing : Deu. 11:29; Deu. 27:12; Deu. 11:29; Jos. 8:33; John 4:20

✪ See Mt. Ebal - curse.


Mt. Gerizim - curse : Jdg. 9:7; Jdg. 9:57
Mt. Gerizim - near Shechem : Sychar - near Shechem
Mt. Gerizim vs. Mt. Ebal : Mt. Ebal vs. Mt. Gerizim
Mt. Hor : Mt. Hor - Aaron dies on
Mt. Hor - Aaron dies on : Num. 20:25-28; Deu. 32:50
Mt. Horeb :

✪ See Mt. Sinai.


Mt. Nebo : Mt. Nebo - Moses dies on
Mt. Nebo - Moses dies on : Deu. 32:49; Deu. 34:1-5
Mt. of Olives : footstep - on Mt. of Olives
Mt. of Olives - footstep on : footstep - on Mt. of Olives
Mt. Perazim : Perazim - Mt., God's victory
Mt. Perazim - God's victory : Perazim - Mt., God's victory
Mt. Seir : Mt. Seir - Esau dwelt
Mt. Seir - Esau dwelt : Gen. 36:8; Gen. 32:3; Deu. 2:5; Jos. 24:4
Mt. Sinai : Joshua - on Mt. Sinai; Mt. Sinai - fear at; Mt. Sinai - God descends on; Mt. Sinai - location ; Mt. Sinai - travel time from Egypt; Ex. 19:2; Ex. 19:11; Ex. 19:18; Ex. 19:20; Ex. 19:23; Ex. 24:16; Ex. 31:18; Ex. 34:2; Ex. 34:4; Ex. 34:29; Ex. 34:32; Lev. 7:38; Lev. 25:1; Lev. 26:46; Lev. 27:34; Num. 3:1; Num. 28:6; Deu. 33:2; Ne. 9:13; Gal. 4:24-25
Mt. Sinai - fear at : Ex. 20:18; Deu. 5:5; Heb. 12:18-20
Mt. Sinai - God descends on : Ex. 19:20; Ne. 9:13
Mt. Sinai - Joshua on : Joshua - on Mt. Sinai
Mt. Sinai - location : Gen. 45:10; Gen. 46:35; Ex. 3:18; Ex. 5:3; Ex. 8:27; Ex. 18:27; Num. 10:29-30; Num. 33:18-19; Deu. 1:2; Gal. 4:25

"The site favored by most scholars is Gebel Musa (Mountain of Moses), or one of several nearby mountains, in the high-mountain region of southern Sinai. . . . The identification of Gebel Musa as Mt. Sinai is a Christian tradition originating in the fourth century. We have no preserved Jewish tradition for the location of Mt. Sinai. Thus, there is a gap of 1800 years between the receiving of the law on Mt. Sinai (1446 BC) and the beginning of the Christian tradition. What is more, there is no documentation in any Christian source as to why this particular mountain was chosen. The only Jewish tradition we have concerning Mt. Sinai is that it is a low mountain (Babylonian Talmud and BaMidbar Rabbah). Gebel Musa, on the other hand, is very high (7,497 ft.). There are a number of other difficulties with a southern Sinai location for Mt. Sinai. To begin with, it is in the opposite direction from the Promised Land! Moreover, it is much too far from Midian (east of the Gulf of Aqaba) for Moses to have been shepherding Jethro's flocks there (Exod. 3:1). A third difficulty is that Mt. Sinai (also called Mt. Horeb) was located in the territory of Edom (Deut. 33:2, Judges 5:4; Hab. 3:3), which did not extend south of the north shore of the Gulf of Aqaba (Crew 2002). The most serious objection to the traditional location, however, is that it is too far from Kadesh Barnea for the Israelites with their livestock (Exod. 13:38) to have made the journey in 11 days (Deut. 1:2; Wood 2000: 99). " Bryant G. Woods, "In Search of Mt. Sinai", ABR Electronic Newsletter, Vol. 7 Issue 6, June 2007. 2007071801.htm "In Galatians 4:25, the Apostle Paul identifies Mount Sinai as being in Arabia. He writes: “For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar - for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children –“ (4:24-25 NKJV, emphasis mine). The questions to be asked regarding this passage are: (1) “Where was Arabia in the first century AD, and what area did it cover, when the Apostle Paul wrote the book of Galatians?” (2) “Where would a Jewish person, living in Jerusalem in the first century AD, understand Arabia to be?” (3) “What was the Apostle Paul’s geographical understanding of the term Arabia?” The short answer is that in the days of the Apostle Paul the term “Arabia” included the Sinai Peninsula and did not correspond just to modern-day Saudi Arabia’s boundaries as some today mistakenly assert. The area of Saudi Arabia was one part of first century Arabia, but not the whole of Arabia. Thus the biblical Mount Sinai, located in the Sinai Peninsula, which in my opinion should be located at Jebel Sin-Bishar (Franz 2000: 112; Faiman 2000; Har-el 1983; Rasmussen 1989: 89-91), was in “Arabia.” The traditional Mount Sinai at Jebel Musa was also located in the Sinai in ancient “Arabia.” So Mount Sinai (either site) was in both the Sinai and in “Arabia,” which overlapped, and there is no disconnect with the Bible, ancient geography, or modern scholarship." Gordon Franz, Where is Mount Sinai in Arabia (Galatians 4:25)?, Associates for Biblical Research, Dec. 19, 2013 [http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2013/12/19/Where-is-Mount-Sinai-in-Arabia-%28Galatians-425%29.aspx#Article] accessed 20140123. "In Galatians 4:25, the Apostle Paul identifies Mount Sinai as being in Arabia . . . in the days of the Apostle Paul, the term “Arabia” included the Sinai Peninsula and did not correspond just to modern-day Saudi Arabia’s boundaries as some today mistakenly assert. The area of Saudi Arabia was one part of first-century Arabia, but no the whole of Arabia. Thus the biblical Mount Sinai, located in the Sinai Peninsula, which in my opinion should be located at Jebel Sin-Bishar . . . was in “Arabia.” The traditional Mount Sinai at Jebel Musa was also located in the Sinai in ancient “Arabia.” So Mount Sinai (either site) was in bot the Sinai and in “Arabia,” which overlapped, and there is no disconnect with the Bible, ancient geography, or modern scholarship." Gordon Franz, Where is Mount Sinai in Arabia, Ref-0066, 28.3 (2015), 80-84, p. 80.


Mt. Sinai - travel time from Egypt : Ex. 19:1
Mt. Zion : Zion - Mt. - abides continually; Zion - Mt. - God fight for; Zion - Mt. in heaven?
Mt. Zion - abides continually : Zion - Mt. - abides continually
Mt. Zion - God fights for : Zion - Mt. - God fight for
Mt. Zion - in heaven? : Zion - Mt. in heaven?

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