Midian was also placed in Arabia FelixВ by the 1st-century AD Jewish historian Josephus (AD 37-ca. The locale of Midian within Arabia Felix can be inferred from the Ptolemaic towns of Macna and Madiama (red arrows) which correspond with the historic Midian towns of Maqna and Al-badвЂ™, the latter being the Madyan of the medieval Arab geographers. The white area of Arabia Petraea ends at this point. The вЂњElanites SinusвЂќ in Figure 1 is a distorted Gulf of Aqaba with its head or terminus is at вЂњElanaвЂќ (blue arrow). terminated on the north by the designated border of Arabia PetraeaвЂ¦ from the terminus of the Arabian gulf near the Elanite bay (Stevenson 1932, 137).ДЇigure 1 Renaissance-Era Version of PtolemyвЂ™s Asia IV Map (click to enlarge). The white area below Palestine is вЂњArabia Petraea.вЂќ The brown area below Arabia Petraea is вЂњArabia Felix.вЂќ Ptolemy defined Arabia Felix as lying east of the modern Gulf of Aqaba, south of its terminus at Elath ( Elana, Aqaba): Looking at the map, Eusebius lived on the Mediterranean coast in Caesarea (green arrow), in Palestine (red-brown area). 150 AD work of the Greek Geographer Ptolemy, who compiled the geographical knowledge of the 2 nd-century AD Roman Empire. However, EusebiusвЂ™ definition of вЂњArabiaвЂќ is easily explained using the Renaissance-era map in Figure 1. Unfortunately, these descriptions have generally been misunderstood or ignored due to confusion about the вЂњArabiaвЂќ term.

It lies beside Mount Sinai beyond Arabia in the Desert (ibid.

The mountain of God in the land of Madiam. From this they are called Madianites, and it is now called MadianВ (ibid. вЂ¦is a cityвЂ¦ lies beyond Arabia to the south in the desert of the Saracens, east of the Red sea. In modern terms, they placed it east of the Gulf of Aqaba in northwest Saudi Arabia, in the vicinity of ancient Midian. The location of Mount Sinai was clearly explained in the 4 th century AD by Christian scholar, Eusebius of Caesarea ( ADВ 260/265-339/340) and reiterated by theologian Saint Jerome (ca.

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