evidences, which none who behold them can gainsay, that this was that 'great and terrible wilderness' through which Moses, under God's direction, led His people."
[Authorities and Sources:—"Explorations in the
Peninsula of Sinai." By Rev. F. W. Holland (in volume
on the "Recovery of Jerusalem"). "Sinai." By Major
H. S. Palmer. "The Desert of the Exodus." By Professor
E. H. Palmer. "The Desert of the Tih." By
Prof. E. H. Palmer (in the volume of Special Papers,
P. E. Fund.)]
[Nothing is said in this section about the Sinaitic Inscriptions, because it has long ago been settled by scholars that they are Nabathean pilgrim texts of the third and fourth centuries, A.D., written by travellers who were then visiting the Sinai convent and the hermitage of Wâdy Feirân, and the traders who passed from Petra on the way to Egypt. They were first read by Beer in 1840, and the authoritative work upon them is that of Levy in 1860. In 1868-9, Prof. E. H. Palmer confirmed their results. For further references see Major Conder in Quarterly Statement, Jan. 1892.]
