The Sodom and Gomorrah story reflects yet another motif pattern known from extrabiblical literature, that of divine beings who visit a city to test the hospitality of its people and eventually destroy the inhospitable city. In their textbook on the history of Israel and Judah, Miller and Hayes state: Two legendary cities from prehistoric Israel in the neighborhood of the Dead Sea.it is highly uncertain, if not improbable, that the vanished cities of the Pentapolis will ever be recovered (1992: 99, 102). In his Anchor Bible Dictionary article on Sodom and Gomorrah, M.J. These allusions, of course, stem from the Biblical account of events that occurred in the days of Abraham in Genesis 19.īut did these places ever exist and will they ever be found? Most scholars think not. An especially wicked place is described as a "Sodom and Gomorrah." Pastors are sometimes said to be preaching "fire and brimstone." And we have the legal term sodomy for unnatural sex acts. The names Sodom and Gomorrah(1) are bywords in our modern society. This article was originally published in summer 1999 issue of Bible and Spade. What is more, this evidence demonstrates that the Bible provides an accurate eyewitness account of events that occurred southeast of the Dead Sea over 4,000 years ago. When the archaeological, geographical and epigraphic evidence is reviewed in detail, it is clear that the infamous cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have now been found.
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