Hala-'l Badr

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Hala-'l Badr (or Hala-'l Bedr) is a volcano in Arabia situated at 27º 15' N, 37º 12' E.

It has been proposed as the site of the biblical Mount Sinai:

in the early 20th century by Alois Musil,
in 1971 by Jean Koenig (Le site de Al-Jaw dans l'ancien pays de Madian)
in 2003 by Colin Humphreys (The Miracles of Exodus)

Humphreys points out that many of the descriptions of Mount Sinai given in the Bible can be seen as descriptions of an erupting volcano, and Hala-'l Badr has apparently erupted in historical times.

The idea that Sinai was a volcano has been advanced by Charles Beke (Mount Sinai, a Volcano, 1873), Freud (Moses and Monotheism, 1939), and Immanuel Velikovsky.

See also: Edomites