Description: The great Sinaitic Peninsula lies between Egypt and the Gulf of Suez on the one side and the arm of the Red Sea known as the Gulf of Akaha on the other. It forms a huge triangular desert. To the northern end lies a plain of white sand, the wilderness of Shur, then below a barren tableland of limestone, known as the Wilderness of Paran, 'the great and terrible wilderness' of the Forty Years' Wanderings of the Israelites. It is still called Et Tih, 'the Wandering,' and is crossed by two drear caravan routes, marked by dry bones of victims to its scourge." — Smith
Place Names: Palestine, Great Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, River Nile, Memphis, Goshen, Pithom, Succoth, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, Wilderness of Shur, Elath, Elim, Wilderness of Paran,
ISO Topic Categories: location,
inlandWaters
Keywords: Period of the Exodus, physical, physical features, location,
inlandWaters, Unknown, Old Testament Times
Source: William Walter Smith, The Students' Illustrated Historical Geography of the Holy Land (Philadelphia, PA: The Sunday School Times Company, 1911) 65
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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