The Sermon On The Mount

There are many places throughout the Bible where mountains play an important role. From the flood, Mount Ararat was the place that the arc settled on when the waters went down. Abraham was told to go up to the top of a mountain in the land of Moriah to sacrifice his son to The Lord. Christ was transfigured on, you guessed it, a mountaintop. In fact, one of the most prolific and well known sermons in the Bible, if not the most well known, is actually referred to as "The Sermon on the Mount". A mountain is a thing that takes determination to climb, and is where God would call those people with whom He needed to talk. Mountains are generally considered to be holy ground, and there is one mountain in particular that comes to mind when we think
This is the highest peak in the range, (Schaff-Herzog encyclopedia) and is also thought to be a better guess as the peak, simply based upon the fact that it's higher than the rest of the peaks. There is a monastery on top of this peak, and has been there continually since the time when it is believed that, approximately 1400 years ago, Saint Catherine was executed and her body vanished. It is a tradition held that angels took her body to the top of this mountain, and thus it was named after her. A third peak in this same mountain range is called Ras al-Safsafah, or "Peak of the Willow Tree", which has its own place in the running for the Biblical Mount Sinai, with its large area at its base, which would be an ideal place for the children of Israel to camp out for all of this time. Another interesting option, and one that is located outside of the Sinatic Peninsula, is Mount Yeroham. This mountain is actually just West and South of the Dead Sea. This peak is the right distance from Egypt yet not found in Midian, which would disqualify it from the running. (Num 10:29, 30) The mountain is located in the northern Negev, so it passes this location test. There was more than enough space for the people to camp out in, and an abundance of water in the area. There were also many pottery shards located in the area, as there would have been found at a campsite of this magnitude that was camped out
However studying the subject has led me to believe that there are too many problems with such a conclusion to be reached soundly. I understand that Galatians 4:24, 25 state that Mount Sinai was located in Arabia, but it is not safe for us to assume that the same borders are in place today, that were in place during the days of Paul. As we can see however, Mount Yeroham is on the very edge of the Biblical borders of Arabia, which just further shows in my mind that this is the true Mount Sinai of the