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Mount Quarantania is a mountain approximately 366 m (1 200 feet) high, located about 11 km (7 miles) north-west of the West Bank town of Jericho. According to the public domain Catholic Encyclopedia, Quarantania is "a limestone peak on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho". It is the site of a Greek Orthodox monastery. It is traditionally accepted by Christians to be the scene of the temptation of Christ, and is mentioned in Matt. 4:8.

It is mentioned in a poem of the Temptation event by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Christus: A Mystery (I:1:2 Mount Quarantania).

Some or all of this article is forked from Wikipedia. The original article was at Mount Quarantania. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. This article incorporates text from the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, a publication now in the public domain. This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.

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