| Willow Peak | |
|---|---|
| Ras es-Safsafeh | |
 Saint Catherine's monastery, with Willow Peak behind | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 1,970 m (6,460 ft) |
| Coordinates | 28°33′20″N 33°58′02″E / 28.55565°N 33.96714°E |
| Geography | |
  Willow Peak Location of Willow Peak | |
| Location | Egypt |
Willow Peak or Ras es-Safsafeh (Arabic: رأس صفصافة) is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula. The mountain peak overlooks Saint Catherine's Monastery, and is situated approximately 1km to the west.[1]
Christian tradition considers the mountain to be the biblical Mount Horeb.[2]
References
- ↑ Manley, Deborah; Abdel-Hakim, Sahar (April 2009). Traveling Through Sinai: From the Fourth to the Twenty-First Century. American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-977-416-281-7.
- ↑ Tenney, Merrill C. (10 August 2010). The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 5: Revised Full-Color Edition. Zondervan Academic. p. 1157. ISBN 978-0-310-87700-4.
Christian tradition generally claims Ras es-Safsaf as the Biblical Horeb and Jebel Musa as Sinai.
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