Deuteronomy 1:2

It is eleven days", etc.] The distance from the accepted position of Ḥoreb-Sinai to that of Ḳadesh, -Ain Ḳudeis, is -10 or 11 days of common camel-riding" (C. Trumbull K. B.71, 215): caravans with children and flocks, like Israel's, would of course take longer.

Horeb Always in E, and Deut., as in 1 Kings 19 and Malachi, the name of the Mt of the Lawgiving, for which J and P have Sinai. The attempt has been made to interpret the two names as of different sites; but the Biblical evidence for their identity is clear; as even so early a scholar as Jerome perceived (Onom. Sacr.ed. Lagarde, 146). This matter as well as the questions of the position of Sinai-Ḥoreb (as between Jebel Musa and Jebel Serbal and between the Sinaitic Peninsula as a whole and the E. coast of the Gulf of -Aḳabah or Mt Se-îr or the neighbourhood of Ḳadesh) has already been exhaustively discussed in this series (Driver, Exod.pp. 18, 177 191). It is, therefore, unnecessary to say anything more here; except to recall that the question as between the Sinaitic Peninsula and some site farther N. appears to have been open in the time of the Crusades and of the Moslem geographers in the 14th century. Abu-l Fida c. 1321: -the position of Tur Sinâ is the subject of discussion. Some say it is the mountain near Ailah (at the head of the Gulf of -Aḳabah) and others that it is a mountain in Syria" (quoted by G. le Strange, Palestine under the Moslems, 72 f.). The Chronicle d'Ernoui et Bernard le Trésorier says, -Cel Mons Synai est entre le Mer Rouge et leCrac (Kerak)." See further ZDPVxxxvii. 190 ff.

by the way of mount Seir Se-îr, the territory of Edom, lay W. as well as E. of the (Deuteronomy 1:44; cp. C. Trumbull K. B.84 ff.; Buhl, Gesch. der Edomiter, 22 ff.); but Mt Se-îris in Dt (Deuteronomy 2:1) and elsewhere (e.g. Genesis 14:6) the range E. of the -Arabah. Thus the way of Mt Se-îrwould be the most easterly of the roads from the Sinai Peninsula to Ḳadesh, which passes through the -Arabah. Further see Dillm.

Kadesh-barnea This form is peculiar to D, deuteronomic passages and P; elsewhere Ḳadeshstands alone: and we have besides -En-Mishpaṭ, Well of Judgement(Genesis 14:7), and Meribath-ḳadesh(see on Deuteronomy 33:2). The accepted site, visited first by Seetzen in 1807, then by Rowlands in 1842 (Williams, Holy City, i. 464 ff.), and described and argued for by Trumbull (Kad. Barn.), is the neighbourhood of the -Ain Ḳudeis (Seetzen's and Rowlands" spelling, confirmed by Musil) about 80 km. S.S.W. of Be'er-sheba-, but the name must have covered the still more fertile -Ain Ḳadeyrât and the -A. Ḳaseymeh. Musil, who visited -Ain Ḳudeis thrice, doubts its identity with Ḳadesh (Edomi. 212), and suggests a site farther N.; yet he admits there the most fertile landscapes in all the region, describes the wâdies as either cultivated or full of relics of ancient cultivation, and even reports one more fertile than the plain about Gaza. See also PEFQ, 1914, 64 ff.; ZDPV, 1914, 7 ff. Barnea-has been explained as -son" or -desert, of wandering." But it may belong to the number of non-Semitic names found in this region (e.g. Gharandel). To a hill S.E. of -Ain Ḳudeis, there is still attached the name Forni, which appears to be an echo of Barnea-: the letter -ayinis sometimes dropped in mod. Arabic.

The whole fragment, 1 band 2, thus obviously out of place where it stands, may have been originally a note to Deuteronomy 1:19, which its details, so far as they are clear, suit.