Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister,
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 18…
(1911)
“ A land entirely unknown, on a mountain in which Abraham offered Isaac (Gen. xxii. 2) . The text is probably corrupt: some have suggested “land of the Amorites,” others “land of Midian.” The etymology of the word is equally obscure. Traditionally, of course, “the land of Moriah” is identified with the site of the Temple at Jerusalem, [1] except by the Samaritans and a few western scholars (such as Dean Stanley) who accept their belief that the mountain was Gerizim. ”
