Al-Madhbah
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Jebel al-Madhbah is a mountain in present-day Jordan that some have proposed as the Biblical Mount Sinai.
One of the more important suggestions was made by Ditlef Nielsen in 1927 when visiting Petra, the old Nabatean kingdom capital, in present day Jordan. He considered Jebel-al-Madhbah (the high place) a strong candidate. This mountain, in the vicinity of Petra, is over a thousand meters high, presents millennia-old rock-excavated ceremonial structures such as a square altar and a round one, an open court able to receive multitudes, a ceremonial pool and an uphill rock staircase, among other details. Furthermore, it fits well in Apostle Paul's location of Mount Sinai in Arabia, effected with the geographical authority of one who had been travelling through Arabia following his stay in Damascus after conversion (see Paul of Tarsus).
Nielsen's proposal has been recently adopted by Collins and Herald in Mercy.
