Mount Tabor

Mount Tabor
Mount Tabor
Highest point
Elevation	575 m (1,886 ft)
Coordinates	32°41′14″N 35°23′25″E / 32.68722°N 35.39028°E
Geography
	Mount Tabor Lower Galilee, Israel

Mount Tabor, sometimes spelled Mount Thabor (Arabic جبل طابور; Hebrew: הר תבור or Har Tavor), is a large hill of biblical significance in Lower Galilee, Northern Israel at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 18 kilometres (11 miles) west of the Sea of Galilee.

In the Hebrew Bible (Joshua, Judges), Mount Tabor is the site of the Battle of Mount Tabor between the Israelite army under the leadership of Barak and the army of the Canaanite king of Hazor, Jabin, commanded by Sisera.

In Christian tradition, Mount Tabor is the site of the transfiguration of Jesus.^[1]

^ The tradition of Mount Tabor as the site of the Transfiguration goes back to at least the 3rd century (Origen). The identification has been doubted in 19th-century scholarship (Henry Alford 1808, John Lightfoot 1825).

[1] The tradition of Mount Tabor as the site of the Transfiguration goes back to at least the 3rd century (Origen). The identification has been doubted in 19th-century scholarship (Henry Alford 1808, John Lightfoot 1825).

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