Editing Moriah (section)

{{Short description|Location in the Book of Genesis}}
{{About|the biblical location}}
[[File:Height 743 section Jerusalem map, scale 10,000 scale, 1st edition, Survey of Palestine, Jaffa, August 1925, Ordnance Survey Offices, Southhampton, 1926.png|thumb|Map of Jerusalem in 1925, showing the location of Mount Moriah according to Jewish sources]]
[[File:שכם ליד הר גריזים צילום- ליאו קאהן 1912 - i וגנרi btm782.jpeg|thumb|The area around [[Mount Gerizim]] is identified by the [[Samaritans]] as the "land of Moriah", or "Moreh".]]
'''Moriah''' {{IPAc-en|m|ɒ|ˈ|r|aɪ|ə}} ([[Hebrew language|Hebrew:]] {{Script/Hebrew|מוֹרִיָּה}}, ''Mōrīyya''; [[Arabic]]: ﻣﺮﻭﻩ, ''Marwah'') is the name given to a region in the [[Book of Genesis]], where the [[binding of Isaac]] by [[Abraham]] is said to have taken place. Jews identify the region mentioned in Genesis and the specific mountain in which the near-sacrifice is said to have occurred with "Mount Moriah", mentioned in [[Books of Chronicles|the Book of Chronicles]] as the place where [[Solomon's Temple]] is said to have been built, and both these locations are also identified with the current [[Temple Mount]] in [[Jerusalem]].<ref>Brant Pitre, John Bergsma. [https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Catholic_Introduction_to_the_Bible.html?id=px5tDwAAQBAJA ''A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament''], p. 415.</ref> The [[Samaritan Pentateuch|Samaritan Torah]], on the other hand, transliterates the place mentioned for the binding of Isaac as Moreh, a name for the region near modern-day [[Nablus]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 11:29–30 - New International Version |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2011%3A29-30&version=NIV |access-date=2022-01-15 |website=Bible Gateway |language=en}}</ref> It is believed by the [[Samaritans]] that the near-sacrifice actually took place on [[Mount Gerizim]], near Nablus in the [[West Bank]].<ref name="JewishEncyclopedia2">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Moriah |encyclopedia=[[Jewish Encyclopedia]] |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=799&letter=M |access-date=2008-07-14 |last=Jacobs |first=Joseph |author2=M. Seligsohn}}</ref>

Many [[Muslims]], in turn, believe the place mentioned in the first book of the Bible, rendered as [[Safa and Marwa|Marwa]] in Arabic in the [[Quran]], is actually located close to the [[Kaaba]] in [[Mecca]], [[Saudi Arabia]]. There has been a historical account of rams' horns preserved in the Kaaba until the year 683, which are believed to be the remains of the sacrifice of [[Ishmael in Islam|Ishmael]] – the first son of Abraham, who most Muslims believe was the son Abraham tied down and almost sacrificed, and not Isaac.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.al-mawrid.org/index.php/articles/view/the-great-sacrifice-3 | title='The Great Sacrifice' (3) | publisher=Al-Mawrid | date=November 1, 1995 | access-date=December 5, 2015 | author=Imam Farahi, Hamiduddin }}</ref>