Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

“ HOR, MOUNT (הור‎) , the scene in the Bible of Aaron’s death, situated “in the edge of the land of Edom” (Num. xxxiii. 37) . Since the time of Josephus it has been identified with the Jebel Nebi Ḥarūn (“Mountain of the Prophet Aaron”) , a twin-peaked mountain 4780 ft. above the sea-level (6072 ft. above the Dead Sea) in the Edomite Mountains on the east side of the Jordan-Arabah valley. On the summit is a shrine said to cover the grave of Aaron. Some modern investigators dissent from this identification: H. Clay Trumbull prefers the Jebel Madāra, a peak north-west of ʽAin Kadis. ”