Here is an interesting find according to the bible.... the Bible itself, in several places, comes right out and says that Yahwah came from Tayma and/or Sinai was in Arabia. For example Habakuk 3:1-3 says that “God” came from Tayma. Note that the author who composed Habakuk writing in the post-exilic period many centuries after Yahweh and El (Elohim) had been merged into a single deity would not have known the difference between Yahweh and El, and in fact used both terms interchangeably in this reference. Therefore, he is saying that Yahweh came from Tayma. Galatians 4:24-25 says that Mount Sinai is in Arabia. Deuteronomy says “. . . the Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Se’ir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran” (Deut. 33:2). And, then in Judges we have “Lord, when thou wentest out of Se’ir, when thou marchedst out of Edom, the earth trembled . . . .” (Judg. 5:4). Even though the place names of Edom and Sinai are usually not thought of as being in Arabia, many scholars do equate those sites, as well as Se’ir, with Tayma and areas of NW Arabia east of the Red Sea—at least in this particular context (Smith, Mark, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism, 2001, p. 245). Could this be the why ISlam and Judaism mirror one other, being that they have the same source
Posted on: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:53:21 +0000
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