The Mediterranean was sighted for the first time and we laagered on the edge of the Sinai desert. |
One generation saw the plagues in Egypt, the Red Sea parting, and the awesome majesty of Sinai. |
Many early travellers in Sinai were both enchanted and challenged by the inscriptions, some attributing them to the Hebrews of the Exodus. |
He inclines to the belief that the Ugarites got the idea of the alphabet from Phoenician users who were developing the Sinai script. |
In evangelical symbolism, that meant that a man of prayer was going to commune with God, somewhat like Moses on Mount Sinai. |
The cluster of dive boats in the water stands in stark contrast to the jagged Sinai mountains and Bedouin tents on the land. |