Mount of Transfiguration

The New Testament does not identify the mountain upon which Jesus underwent his Transfiguration. The synoptic gospels each recount the event with similar language, with Matthew's account as follows:

Several candidates have been suggested:

Mount Tabor (575 metres or 1,886 feet high) is the traditional location. The earliest identification of the Mount of Transfiguration as Tabor is by Origen in the 3rd century. It is also mentioned by St. Cyril of Jerusalem and St. Jerome in the 4th century. It is later mentioned in the 5th-century Transitus Beatae Mariae Virginis. The summit of Mount Tabor is also referenced as the place of the Transfiguration according to the Mystical City of God by Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602–1665), who writes: "For His Transfiguration He selected a high mountain in the center of Galilee, two leagues east of Nazareth and called Mount Tabor." The Church of the Transfiguration is located atop Mount Tabor.^{[clarification needed]}

Mount Hermon (2,814 metres or 9,232 feet high) was suggested by J. Lightfoot (1602–1675) and R. H. Fuller (1915–2007) for two reasons: It is the highest site in the area [given that the Transfiguration took place on "a high mountain" (Matthew 17:1)], and it is located near Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16:13), where the previous events reportedly took place.

Other locations that have been proposed include: one of the Horns of Hattin, by R. W. Stewart (1857); Gebel Germaq (1,208 metres), 5 kilometres southwest of Safed, by W. Ewing (1906); Tel El-Ahmar (1,452 metres) on Jabal al-Druze, by Gustav Dalman (1924); Mount Nebo by H. A. Whittaker (1987); and Mount Sinai by Benjamin Urrutia^[when?]. Others, such as A. Loisy (1908), have deliberately rejected seeking a geographical location.