sinaiatic

Updated: May 23, 2025

Of the entire story, it may be that only the journey into the Sinaiatic peninsula is true, and of that there probably remained but tradition, on which history was based much later, by writers who had only surmises concerning the time and circumstances in which it occurred. Yet equally with the roguery, Moses may have been. Seen through modern criticism his figure fades though his name persists.

Edgar Saltus - The Lords of the Ghostland: A History of the Ideal