The mountain the gospels do not name

All three synoptics say only that he took them up a high mountain. Tabor is the tradition, attested from the fourth century and carrying a basilica since the sixth, and it is where this dataset puts the Transfiguration — marked traditional, because that is what it is. The objection is old and reasonable: Tabor is nowhere near Caesarea Philippi, where Peter's confession has just happened six days earlier, and Hermon is. The tradition chose the mountain that could be climbed and built on.

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