Mount Sinai (Bible)

thumb|The Mount Sinai in a biblical illustration Mount Sinai is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to the Hebrew prophet Moses by God, according to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. In the Book of Deuteronomy, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Horeb. "Sinai" and "Horeb" are generally considered by biblical scholars to refer to the same place. Mount Sinai is considered one of the most sacred locations by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Quotes about Bible Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. Book of Exodus 19:18 NKJV. Others L'opera [dei Numeri] risulta un insieme di leggi e narrazioni spesso vivaci e intense anche teologicamente. Il Sinai è quasi il grande sfondo costante dei primi dieci capitoli: esso è lo spartiacque che divide i due grandi versanti dell'itinerario nel deserto verso la terra della libertà: dalla schiavitù d'Egitto all'intimità con Dio al Sinai, dal Sinai all'orizzonte tanto atteso della terra promessa. The work [of the Book of Numbers] is a collection of laws and narratives that are often lively and intense, including from a theological point of view. Sinai is almost the great constant backdrop of the first ten chapters: it is the watershed that divides the two great sides of the journey in the desert towards the land of freedom: from slavery in Egypt to intimacy with God at Sinai, from Sinai to the long-awaited horizon of the promised land. Antonio Ghirlanda, La Bibbia, Edizioni San Paolo, 2010. ISBN 978-88-215-6777-3, p. 133 (in Italian). Passiamo ora al secondo monte che costituisce un momento obbligato di riflessione: il monte Sinai, un monte evidentemente carico di risonanze, a proposito del quale vorrei però anche in questo caso indicare solamente tre dimensioni. La prima: il Sinai è il luogo della teofania, della grande manifestazione del Dio misterioso. "Sul far del mattino – si legge in Esodo 19, 26 – vi furono tuoni e lampi, una nube densa sul monte, un suono fortissimo di tromba, tutto il popolo che era sull'accampamento fu scosso da terrore." Let us now move on to the second mountain, which constitutes an obligatory moment of reflection: Mount Sinai, a mountain evidently full of resonance, about which, however, I would like to indicate only three dimensions in this case as well. The first: Sinai is the place of the theophany, of the great manifestation of the mysterious God. "In the morning – we read in Exodus 19:26 – there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a very loud sound of a trumpet. All the people in the camp were terrified." Gianfranco Ravasi, Ararat. La montagna tra simbolo e profezia, Nicolodi, Rovereto (TN), 2002. ISBN 88-8447-050-1. See also Mount Horeb External links Category:Biblical mountains