Mount Seir (Hebrew: הַר-שֵׂעִיר, romanized: Har Sēʿir) is the ancient and biblical name for a mountainous region stretching between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba in the northwestern region of Edom and southeast of the Kingdom of Judah. It may also have marked the older historical limit of Ancient Egypt in Canaan.[1] A place called "Seir, in the land of Shasu" (tꜣ-šꜣsw sʿr – ta-Shasu seʿer), thought to be near Petra, Jordan, is listed in the temple of Amenhotep III at Soleb (ca. 1380 BC).[1][2]
The Nabataean equivalent is šrʾ, and the modern Arabic equivalent is thought to be al-Sharat (Arabic: جبال الشراة, romanized: Jibāl ash-Sharāh, lit. 'Mountains of Sharāh') in Jordan.[3]
- ^ a b Steven Grosby (2007). Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations. Edinburgh University Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780748629350. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ Gibson, Daniel; Harremoës, Peter. "Names for the city of Petra" (PDF).
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Simkins, Ronald A. (2019). "Seir (place)". In Freedman, David Noel (ed.). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-1-4674-6046-0.