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MAP 9 The geography of the movements of the Ark of the Covenant according to the Salibi hypothesis Biblical Account of the Ark’s movements: Shiloh – Eben – Ashdod - Gath- Beth Shemesh – Gibeah – Goren – City of David – Jerusalem Kebra Nagast account of Menelik’s route: Jerusalem – Gaza – border of Egypt – Waters of Ethiopia – Brook of Egypt – Sea of Eritrea – arrival in Ethiopia opposite Mt Sinai
QUEEN OF SHEBA AND BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP 165 errant son and the Ark were not in the area and, that being the case, further pursuit was fruitless. The highest mountain in Arabia is in Yemen. It is 3,666 meters high and is a very prominent landmark for sailors navigating the Red Sea. Sailing due west you reach the peninsula on the Eritrean coast that shelters its most famous port of antiquity, Adulis. The mountain is not called Mt. Sinai of course, but Jebel al-Nabi Shu’ayb. Jebel means mountain and al- Nabi means the Prophet. At first Shu’ayb seems a mystery, and few in the West would have heard of a prophet named Shu’ayb. In the Old Testament however he is referred to as Jethro. Shu’ayb (Jetho) is considered in Islamic tradition to be the thirteenth prophet after Adam and therefore a religious leader of some magnitude. He also had a daughter who married Moses. Jebel al-Nabi Shu’ayb overlooks Kushm, and it was probably from the people of this area that Moses took his “Cushite” wife. It is generally accepted that this wife was Zipporah, Jethro’s daughter. Mention has already been made of southern Arabian inscriptions referring to a single deity, the God, named Rahman (the Merciful One) and the Prophet Muhammad’s efforts to persuade his followers refer to the One True God as Rahman, the name used in southern Arabia. Salibi suggested that this area was the original homeland of the Hebrew. Arab traditions say the Hebrew were displaced by a volcanic eruption. The land surrounding Jebel al-Nabi Shu’ayb is one of the world’s largest areas of volcanic activity. Plateaus exist in Yemen composed of lava flows up to 1000 meters thick. In the deepest sections of the Red Sea molten lava continues to bubble up between the African and Arabian tectonic plates. The story of the Exodus is full of references to what must have been volcanic activity. Given Qur’anic evidence, the locations in the Kebra Nagast, the demography of Hebraic remnants such as the Yibir, the Tigre inscriptions, the place names and linguistic evidence of Western Arabia, it seems that Jebel al-Nabi Shu’ayb may very well have been the Old Testament Sinai. If that was the case, it would appear that Moses may have obtained the Torah, other guidance and maybe tribal support during challenges to his leadership, from an already long-established religion in the area, perhaps Jethro’s Kenite-Midian cult, 13 that later developed into the one associated with Rahman. Jebel al- Nabi Shu’ayb is about one hundred kilometers from the granite megaliths on the Yemeni coastal plain investigated by Canadian archaeologists in 1997. Salibi, writing before the discovery of the megaliths, suggested that the Israelite priestly clan of Levi made its home in the Jizan area, close to
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CHAPTER ONE Sheba, Zionism, and the
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CHAPTER TWO The Search for Evidence
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CHAPTER THREE Writing the Old Testa
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