A dome-shaped hill rising abruptly from the Jezreel Valley, honoured since Byzantine times as the mountain of the Transfiguration, where Jesus appeared in glory with Moses and Elijah. Churches have crowned it for centuries. But the Gospels do not name the mountain, and a number of scholars prefer Mount Hermon — far higher, and nearer Caesarea Philippi, the scene just before — so the identification is genuinely disputed.
- Where it is
- Lower Galilee, west of the Sea of Galilee
- Scripture
- Matthew 17:1-2
What the evidence confirmsTabor is a striking, long-venerated hill with Byzantine and later churches marking the Transfiguration tradition.
What it does not proveThe Gospels name no mountain; Tabor is traditional, and Mount Hermon is a serious rival on grounds of height and the preceding location.
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