4Num. 20: 11.
5Num. 27: 14; Deut. 32: 51-2.
6Num. 27: 14.
7Easton, The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, s.v. «Meribah», pp. 458-9.
8Deut. 32: 51.
9Stanley, Sinai and Palestine in connection with their history, p. 67.
10The Koran, Sura 2: 60.
11Zayadine, «Caravan Routes Between Egypt and Nabataea and the Voyage of Sultan Baibars to Petra in 1276» in Hadadi, Studies in the history and Archaeology of Jordan, II, p. 173, quoting al-Nuwairi's MS No. 1578, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
12Ibid, p. 169.
13Ibid, p. 170. al spring is more likely to be the true site of Ain Musa.
14Josephus, Antiquities oj the Jews, I, xii, 4.
15Zayadine, p. 173, Quoting Nuwairi.
16Browning, Petra, p. 128.
17Stanley, p. 95.
18Stanley, p. 89, quoting Sheikh Mohammed, source unknown.
19Zayadine, p. 173, Quoting Nuwairi.
202 Kings 14: 7; 2 Chron. 25: 11–12.
21Zayadine, p. 167.
22Browning, pp. 26—7.
23Finkelstein and Silberman, The Bible Unearthed, p. 63.
24Ibid.,'pp. 95—6.
25The Targums of Onkelos, Jonathan and Jerusalem refer to Kadesh-barnea as Rekem-Giah, «of the ravine». See Stanley, p. 94 n. 3.
26Nielsen, The site of the biblical Mount Sinai: A claim for Petra, p. 9, cf. the Targum of Deut. 1: 19.
27Rekem, or Rokan, was an ancient name for Petra, see Jerome, De hoc. Heb voc. Petra and Rekem, quoted in Stanley, p. 94 n. 3. See also Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, IV, vii, 1, who states that Petra was called Arecem, after a Midianite king named Rekem. He says also that Mount Hor lay above Arke, i.e. Arecem, or Rekem.
28Browning, p. 114.
29Stanley, p. 94 n. 3, cf. Schwarz, pp. 23—4.
30Josephus, iy iv, 5.
31Ibid., IV, iv, 6.
32Ibid.
33Ibid., IV, iv, 7.
34Jerome, De hoc. Heb. Voc. Petra and Rekem, as quoted in Stanley, p. 94 n. 3 & 4.
35Num. 20: 1.
36Ex. 17: 1. 37» Ex. 17: 6–7.
37Ex. 17: 6–7.
38Stanley, p. 95.
40Browning, р. 185.
41Ibid.,p. 211.
42Ibid., p. 212.
43Ibid.
44For instance, see The Koran, Sura 2: 54, 28: 17.
45Browning, p. 212.
46Ibid., pp. 214-16.
47Ex. 24: 5.
48Ex. 24: 6.
49Browning, p. 213.
50Ibid., pp. 215-16.
51Ibid., p. 216.
52Nielsen, p. 16.
53The betyl is orientated at an angle of 251 degrees from north.
54Nielsen, p. 16.
55Ibid.
56Ibid.
57Ibid.
58Ibid. See also Nielsen,
59Glueck, The Other Side of the Jordan, p. 178.
60Personal communication between Andrew Collins and Ahmad Muammar, an archaeologist and tour guide from Wadi Musa, in March 2002.
61See Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites, pp. 201—12, for a full account of the veneration of pillars among the early Semites.
62Personal communication between Andrew Collins and Ahmad Muammar in March 2002.
63Browning, pp. 46—7.
64Ibid., pp. 108, 210-11.
65Personal communication between Andrew Collins and Ahmad Muammar in March 2002.
66Browning, p. 48.
67Gunduz, «The Knowledge of Life», JSS 3 (1994), pp. 83, 118-19.
68Ibid.,p. 154.
69Ibid., p. 138.
70Ibid., p. 154.
71Rev. 17: 3–6. For the association between Venus and Babylon see Hislop, The Two Babylons, or the papal worship proved to be the worship of Nimrud and his wife, pp. 5–6. 72Nielsen, p. 21.
73Nielsen, p. 21.
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1See Nielsen, Die altarabische Mondreligion und die mosaische Ueberlieferung 1904, pp. 171—6.
2Num. 20: 22.
3Num. 20: 25–29.
4Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, IV iv, 6–7; IV, vii, 1.
5Ibid., IV, iv, 7.
6Deut. 32: 51-2.
7Deut. 34: 1–5.
8Deut. 52: 50.
9Nielsen, The Site of the Biblical Mount Sinai: A claim for Petra, p. 19.
10This story of Nabi Harun was related to Andrew Collins by Mu» tasim Nawafleh, the head barman of the Petra Forum Hotel, Petra, in March 2002.
11Browning, Petra, p. 172.
12Nielsen, 1928, p. 22; Ex. 24: 9.
13Ex. 24: 10.