In our recent discussions we have brought forth the idea that Midian, not Southern Sinai Peninsula, is the real location of Mt. Sinai. Now, let's take a closer look at some evidences of this idea.   Long before Christian tradition placed Mt. Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula, some 750 years earlier, in about 250 BC, the translators of the Septuagint, those 70 or so scholars in Alexandria, assumed in their translation of the Exodus account, merely as a matter of fact, that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia. Three centuries later the Jewish historian/philosopher Philo, in his work " the Life of Moses" placed the mountain "east of what was later called the Sinai Peninsula, and south of Palestine",. Philo was a Jewish philosopher who was born in Alexandria, Egypt. His family was powerful and influential with ties, through his brother Alexander's son by marriage, to the daughter of Herod Agrippa.    Whereas Philo's Greek predecessors, Eratosthenes, Herodotus, Hesiod and Hecataeus, (with the exception of Strabo) ignored Israel, Philo focused on Israel. Philo was just one generation ahead of Josephus, who used Philo as a resource. For example, both Philo and Josephus say that Mt. Sinai was "the highest of the mountains" of the region. Philo views portions of Arabia as the land of Midian. He does not repeat the errors of his Greek predecessors by saying Goshen was part of Arabia. He seems to have had a working knowledge of both the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba.    For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net.

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