<P> Mount Tabor (575 metres or 1,886 feet high) is the traditional location . The earliest identification of the Mount of Transfiguration as Tabor is by Origen in the 3rd century . It is also mentioned by St. Cyril of Jerusalem and St. Jerome in the 4th century . The Church of the Transfiguration is located atop Mount Tabor . It is later mentioned in the 5th century Transitus Beatae Mariae Virginis . </P> <P> Mount Hermon (2814 metres or 9,232 feet high), was suggested by R.H. Fuller and J. Lightfoot for two reasons: It is the highest in the area (and the Transfiguration took place on "an high mountain" (Matthew 17: 1)), and it is located near Caesarea Philippi (Matthew 16: 13), where the previous events reportedly took place . </P> <P> Other locations which have been proposed include: one of the Horns of Hattin by R.W. Stewart (1857), Gebel Germaq (1208m) 5 km SW of Safed, by W. Ewing (1906), Tell El - Ahmar (1452m) on Jabal al - Druze by Gustav Dalman (1924), and Mount Nebo by H.A. Whittaker (1987), Mount Sinai by Benjamin Urrutia . </P> <P> Others, such as A. Loisy (1908), have deliberately rejected seeking a geographical location . </P>

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