ORDINARY MEETING.* 



The following paper was read by the Author : — 



WHERE IS MOUNT SIiVAIf 



By Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 



[With a Map and Sketches.] 



1, Introduction. — Professor Sayce has put the above question 

 before the pubKc in a recent pamphlet, and after a very 

 learned philological discussion leaves the reader very much 

 in the condition in which he finds him. He merely suggests 

 that some day or other the Mount may be discovered 

 amongst the sterile and sunbeaten heights of Edom. Not 

 having had the advantage, enjoyed by myself in 1883, of 

 personally visiting Arabia Petr^a, Professor Sayce naturally 

 hesitates to identify any of the supposed sites with 

 Mount Sinai. Serbrd, Jebel Musa, and Mount Hor have 

 all been recognized by Avriters as "Horeb, The Mount of 

 God," besides two or three others scattered over the 

 region of Arabia Petrasa which are altogether too pro- 

 blematical for further reference. Havins;, as I teel convinced, 

 personally ascended this ever memorable mountain in the 

 year 1883, and satisfied myself that the traditional Sinai, 

 known as Jebel Musa in the centre of the Shiaitic Peninsula, 

 in every way meets the requirements of the narrative of the 

 Exodus, I venture to reply to the question put by my 



* This paper could not be fully discussed when it was tii'st brought 

 forward. The discussion has now been completed and corrected to date; 

 1899. Any election of members, etc., when it was first brought forward 

 are noted at p. 94, \o\. xxix. 



