Identifier: 07244119.1178.emory.edu
Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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n of a miraculous supply for theirflocks and herds. Many of the valleys, es-pecially in the region round Feiran and theback or west sides of Mount Sinai, whereMoses led the flock of Jethro to feed, aboundin herbs and shrubs, tufts and bushes, afford-ing sufficient pasture for the many flockswhich are still kept by the Bedouins in thoseparts; and there is no doubt that the wilder-ness formerly afforded far greater resourcesthan now. This is proved by abundant ev-idence. There are unmistakable traces inmany parts of ancient fertility. There arethe ruins of cities, and the memory pre-served of many more; there are indicationsof water in different wadies, a proof that,had not the trees been so recklessly destroy-ed as they have been even in late years, veg-etation would have flourished. Besides, va-rious peoples inhabited the region when theIsraelites passed along; so that, though therewere districts wild and solitary enough, yet WILDERNESS OF THE WANDERING 963 WILDERNESS OF THE WANDERING
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Map of the Exodus aud Wanderings.1 there was not through the whole sweep ofcountry the utter desolation which somehave imagined. The mystery which enshrouds by far thegreater number of localities, even those as-signed to events of great magnitude, ratherinflames than allays the eagerness for iden- 1 This map, copied from MClintock and StrongsCyclopaedia, indicates the general routes of the He-brews during the Exodus, the Wanderings, and thefinal march to Palestine. The heavy black line showsthe routes actually ascertained ; the dotted lines thosepresumed, but not absolutely verified. The numbers(1—5. , taken in their order, show the direction and or-der of the journey. Starting in April from Rameses(1), crossing the head of the Gulf of Suez, the westernbranch of the Red Sea, the emigrants skirted its east-ern shore, and then striking across the peninsula,reached Sinai (14) in early summer. Here they re-mained nearly a year; and then, in the spring or earlysummer, set out for Canaan.

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