'Ushsh el-Ghurab

Hill located in the West Bank ʿUshsh el-Ghurāb -87.7 m ft us on c. 250 m ft us on -1 31 53 40 N 35 27 24 E region:PS inline,title ar جبل الغراب "Mount Raven's Nest" Israeli-Occupied West Bank Palestine Jericho Governorate Jericho Municipality File:'Ushush el-Ghurab.jpg 'Ushsh el-Ghurab in the 1941 Survey of Palestine 'Ushsh el-Ghurab is a hill located just north of Jericho in the West Bank. Its peak is -87.7 m ft us relative to sea level, although it still rises appreciably above the still lower Plain of Jericho around it. Separated from the Mount of Temptation by the Wadi ed-Duyuk and the village and refugee camp of 'Ein ed-Duyuk el-Foqa, it was formerly identified as the location of part of Jesus's Temptation by the Devil. Names Etymology Name Jebel ʿUshsh el-Ghurāb (ar جبل الغراب) is Palestinian Arabic for "Mountain of the Nest of the Raven"Sandrezky 1872 or, idiomatically, "of the Mushroom".Sato 2004 44 It has also been variously transcribed as 'Ush Ghurab,Sandrezky 1872 Ush el Ghurab,Abu Sitta 2006 223 'Osh el Ghūrâb,Conder & al. 1883 185. and Jabal ʿUshsh al Ghurāb.USBGN 1971 401USBGN 1992 271 Legend As late as the 19th century, the nearby waditoday the Wadi 'Ushsh el-Ghurab (ar وَادِي الغراب)was known as the "Wadi of the Ascent of Jesus" (Wadi Mesāadet Aīsa). This preserved the local Arab legend that it was the summit of 'Ushsh el-Ghurab, rather than the nearby Mount of Temptation, where Jesus had been taken by the Devil to be offered dominion over all the kingdoms of the world.Saunders 1881 87 & 166 References Citations 3 Bibliography Jordan: Official Standard Names 212435 https://books.google.com/books?id=7RiREkowOfkC United States Board on Geographic Names Washington June 1971 USBGN 1971 . Gazetteer of the West Bank and Gaza Strip https://books.google.com/books?id=7RiREkowOfkC United States Board on Geographic Names Washington December 1992 USBGN 1992 . Abu Sitta Salman H. The Return Journey: A Guide to the Depopulated and Present Palestinian Towns and Villages and Holy Sites... Palestine Land Society London 2006 . Conder Claude Reignier Claude Conder Horatio Herbert Kitchener 1 Conder & al. 1883 0 https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp03conduoft/page/n5/mode/2up Sheets XVII.XXVI. Judea The Survey of Western Palestine 1883 Palestine Exploration Fund London Edward Henry Palmer Walter Besant . Sandrezky Charles List of Names East of Jordan Palestine Exploration Quarterly https://biblicalstudies.org.uk/articles_peq_01.php July 1872 4 3 123–150 10.1179/peq.1872.017 Palestine Exploration Fund London subscription . Sato Tsugitaka Visits to the Tomb of the Saint Ibrahim Acta Asiatica Toho Gakkai Tokyo 86 February 2004 . Saunders Trelawney https://books.google.com/books?id=xSOfETGaKoYC An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains, & Highlands London Richard Bentley & Son 1881 . Category:Mythological places Category:Mountains of the West Bank Category:New Testament mountains Category:Temptation of Christ