page_title: Mount Seir
section_title: Hebrew Bible
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Seir / Hebrew Bible
caption_attribution_description: Encampment in the desert, with Mount Seir in the distance, Wady Arabah. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849. Iconographic Collections Keywords: David Roberts; Louis Haghe
context_page_description: Mount Seir, today known in Arabic as, 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. A place called "Seir, in the land of Shasu", thought to be near Petra, Jordan, is listed in the temple of Amenhotep III at Soleb.
context_section_description: The Hebrew Bible mentions two distinct geographical areas named Seir: a 'land of Seir' and 'Mount Seir' in the South, bordered by the Arabah to the west; and another 'Mount Seir' further north, on the north boundary of Judah, mentioned in Ezekiel ch. 35 and the Book of Joshua (Joshua 15:10).
caption: Desert Camp, with Mt. Seir in the distance, 1849[2]
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