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(b)
Figure 7.2
(a) View of Mount Tabor (source: Wikimedia). (b) Theophanes the Greek, Transfig-
uration, fourteenth century (source: Wikimedia) (© Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow). (
A full colour
version of this figure appears in the colour plate section
)
topped by Moses on the right), indicating the fulfilment of both the Law and the
Prophets (Matthew 5: 17; Nes, 2007).
Today the peak of Sinai is topped by the Greek-Orthodox chapel of Moses
flanked by a minaret, and that of Zion by the Dome of the Rock, or Mosque of
Omar (built on the site of the Temple of Solomon), ranking as the third most im-
portant pilgrimage destination in Islam after Mecca and Medina (Bernbaum, 1997,
