Modern locations of places in the Bible:

Jebel Ataruz

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Also CalledGebel Atarus, Jebel Atarus
Latitude, Longitude31.591311, 35.687420
Palestine 1928 Grid Coordinates (?)215290/111095
Typemountain
Point Precisionpoint on mountain
General Location Notes
  • Madaba Plains Project (2011) (page 239): “Musil arrived at Jebel ‘Ataruz (765 m). He assumes that the top of the hill had been leveled to form a platform (100 x 80 m) for the building (28 x 14 m), which may have been a small fort”
  • MacDonald, East of the Jordan (2000) (page 113): “Khirbat ’Atarus is located... on the west slope of Jabal ’Atarus”
Precise Coordinates NotesMusil’s description matches the site of Rujm Ataruz
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Biblical places associated with Jebel Ataruz

10-meter-per-pixel satellite Image

satellite view of the region around Jebel Ataruz
Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2019 (modified)