'Ushsh el-Ghurab
# 'Ushsh el-Ghurab

'Ushsh el-Ghurab is a hill located just north of Jericho in the West Bank. Its peak is −87.7 meters (−288 ft) relative to sea level, although it still rises appreciably above the still lower Plain of Jericho around it. Separated from the Mount of Temptation by the Wadi ed-Duyuk and the village and refugee camp of 'Ein ed-Duyuk el-Foqa, it was formerly identified as the location of part of Jesus's Temptation by the Devil.

## Name

Jebel ʿUshsh el-Ghurāb (جبل الغراب) is Palestinian Arabic for "Mountain of the Nest of the Raven" or, idiomatically, "of the Mushroom". It has also been variously transcribed as 'Ush Ghurab, Ush el Ghurab, 'Osh el Ghūrâb, and Jabal ʿUshsh al Ghurāb.

## Legend

As late as the 19th century, the nearby wadi—today the Wadi 'Ushsh el-Ghurab (وَادِي الغراب)—was known as the "Wadi of the Ascent of Jesus" (Wadi Mesāʾadet ʾAīsa). This preserved the local Arab legend that it was the summit of 'Ushsh el-Ghurab, rather than the nearby Mount of Temptation, where Jesus had been taken by the Devil to be offered dominion over all the kingdoms of the world.

