Mount Tabor
Holy site
mountain in northern Israel traditionally believed to be the scene of the Transfiguration of Jesus
Location: 32.6863, 35.3929 · Pleiades 678419
What this place is
- Holy site — climbed by fourth-century pilgrims as the mountain of the Transfiguration
Glosses
- 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…
Who is recorded here
- Jesus retreat · AD 29
What happened here
- Transfiguration AD 29
In art
About the place
Mount Tabor, sometimes spelled Mount Thabor, is a large hill of biblical significance in the Lower Galilee, Israel, at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres west of the Sea of Galilee.
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