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  2. Mount Hermon - Wikipedia

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    The southern slopes of Mount Hermon extend to the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, where the Mount Hermon ski resort is located [6] with a top elevation of 2,040 m (6,690 ft). [7] A peak located about 11 kilometres (7 miles) south-southwest of Mount Hermon, known as Mitzpe Hashlagim , is the highest point in the entirety of Israel ...

  3. Temples of Mount Hermon - Wikipedia

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    The Temples of Mount Hermon are around thirty [1] Roman shrines and Roman temples that are dispersed around the slopes of Mount Hermon in Lebanon, Israel and Syria. [2][3] A few temples are built on former buildings of the Phoenician & Hellenistic era, but nearly all are considered to be of Roman construction and were largely abandoned during ...

  4. Mount of Transfiguration - Wikipedia

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    Mount Hermon (2,814 metres or 9,232 feet high) was suggested by J. Lightfoot (1602–1675) and R. H. Fuller (1915–2007) [2] for two reasons: It is the highest site in the area [given that the Transfiguration took place on "a high mountain" (Matthew 17:1)], and it is located near Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16:13), where the previous events reportedly took place.

  5. Transfiguration of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    Transfiguration of Jesus. The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event described in the New Testament, where Jesus is transfigured and becomes radiant in glory upon a mountain. [1][2] The Synoptic Gospels (Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–13, Luke 9:28–36) recount the occasion, and the Second Epistle of Peter also refers to it (2 Peter 1:16–18).

  6. Mount Sinai (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינַי‬‎, Har Sīnay) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God, according to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible. [1] In the Book of Deuteronomy, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Horeb. "Sinai" and "Horeb" are generally considered by scholars to ...

  7. Garden of the gods (Sumerian paradise) - Wikipedia

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    Mount Hermon. In tablet nine of the standard version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh travels to the garden of the gods through the Cedar Forest and the depths of Mashu, a comparable location in Sumerian version is the "Mountain of cedar-felling".

  8. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth - Wikipedia

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    The book was written nine years after Allegro's forced resignation from academia due to publishing The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.It is an imaginative look at what life would have been like at Qumran, Israel at the time when Jesus was supposed to have lived in the 1st century CE.

  9. Theandrios - Wikipedia

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    Yarhibol (Palmyrene) v. t. e. In Greek religion and mythology, Theandrios (Greek: Θεάνδριος, "God-Man") or Theandrates (Θεανδράτης) is a deity that was worshipped in towns and villages around Mount Hermon by North Arabian tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia. [1] Theandrios is evidenced by a dedication to a male god found at Beit ...