Willow Peak

Willow Peak
Willow Peak
Ras es-Safsafeh
	Saint Catherine's monastery, with Willow Peak behind
Highest point
Elevation	1,970 m (6,460 ft)
Coordinates	28°33′20″N 33°58′02″E / 28.55565°N 33.96714°E
Geography
	Willow Peak Location of Willow Peak
Location	Egypt

Willow Peak or Ras es-Safsafeh (Arabic: رأس صفصافة) is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula. The mountain peak overlooks Saint Catherine's Monastery, and is situated approximately 1km to the west.^[1]

Christian tradition considers the mountain to be the biblical Mount Horeb.^[2]

References[edit]

^ Manley, Deborah; Abdel-Hakim, Sahar (April 2009). Traveling Through Sinai: From the Fourth to the Twenty-First Century. American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-977-416-281-7.
^ Tenney, Merrill C. (10 August 2010). The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 5: Revised Full-Color Edition. Zondervan Academic. p. 1157. ISBN 978-0-310-87700-4. Christian tradition generally claims Ras es-Safsaf as the Biblical Horeb and Jebel Musa as Sinai.

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[ManleyAbdel-Hakim2009-1] Manley, Deborah; Abdel-Hakim, Sahar (April 2009). Traveling Through Sinai: From the Fourth to the Twenty-First Century. American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-977-416-281-7.

[Tenney2010-2] Tenney, Merrill C. (10 August 2010). The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 5: Revised Full-Color Edition. Zondervan Academic. p. 1157. ISBN 978-0-310-87700-4. Christian tradition generally claims Ras es-Safsaf as the Biblical Horeb and Jebel Musa as Sinai.

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