Hala l Badr
| Hala l Badr | ||
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| height | 1570 m | |
| location | Medina Province , Saudi Arabia | |
| Coordinates | 27 ° 15 '18 " N , 37 ° 14' 29" E | |
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Hala l-Badr ( Arabic حلا البدر, DMG Ḥalā l-Badr ; also Hala l-Bedr and Hala-'l Badr , English also Hallat al Badr ) is a 1570 meter high volcano in the province of Medina , in the northwest of Saudi Arabia . The cinder cone rises about 300 meters above the surroundings and belongs to the extensive volcanic field Harrat 'Uwayrid . Several eruptions are historically documented well into the Middle Ages.
Mount Sinai
A number of authors, including Charles Beke , Sigmund Freud and Immanuel Velikovsky , stated that the biblical description of the migration of Israelite slaves to a mountain from which a "consuming fire" emanated ( 2 Mos 24.17 EU ) describes a volcanic eruption. This excludes all mountains on the Sinai peninsula and in the Seir Mountains . What remained were three volcanoes in the biblical Midian , in northwestern Saudi Arabia, of which Hala l-Badr is the best known.
In the Hala l-Badr, various authors saw the biblical Sinai , in particular
- Alois Musil in the early 20th century
- Jean Koenig 1971
- Colin Humphreys 2003
- Jacob E. Dunn 2014
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Beke: Mount Sinai, a Volcano (1873)
- ↑ Sigmund Freud: The Man Moses and the Monotheistic Religion (1939)
- ^ Jean Koenig: Le site de Al-Jaw dans l'ancien pays de Madian
- ↑ Colin Humphreys: And the thorn bush was on fire: A scientist explains the miracle accounts of the Bible
- ^ Jacob E. Dunn: A God of Volcanoes: Did Yahwism Take Root in Volcanic Ashes? , Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 38.4 (2014) 387-424
Web links
- Harrat 'Uwayrid in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
- Google Maps aerial view
- Chronological listing of volcanic eruptions based on ice core analyzes