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Mount Sodom (Hebrew: הר סדום, Har Sedom) is a hill along the southwestern part of the Dead Sea in Israel; it is part of the Judaean Desert Nature Reserve. [1] It takes its name from the biblical city of Sodom , whose destruction is the subject of a narrative in the Bible.
Sodom and Gomorrah by John Martin. In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah (/ ˈ s ɒ d ə m /; / ɡ ə ˈ m ɒr ə /) were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. [1] Their story parallels the Genesis flood narrative in its theme of God's anger provoked by man's sin (see Genesis 19:1–28).
It also states that few knowledgeable archaeologists believe that the site represents Sodom or Gomorrah. [ 28 ] Physicist Mark Boslough , a specialist in planetary impact hazards and asteroid impact avoidance , has undertaken a sustained critique in social media and in print of the hypothesis that an air burst was responsible for the ...
Bab edh-Dhra (Levantine Arabic: باب الذراع, romanized: bāb əl-ḏrāʿ) is the site of an Early Bronze Age city located near the Dead Sea on the south bank of the wadi of al-Karak with dates in the EB IB, EB II, EB III, and EB IVA. [1]
[8] [9] This is 200 years earlier than the current assumed date for the destruction of Sodom. [10] Excavations indicate Numeira was a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) walled settlement, though it may have been twice the size we see today. [11] Though only 30% of the site was excavated (c. 1500 m 2) between 1979 and 1983. [12]
Lut (Arabic: لوط, romanized: Lūṭ, ), also known as Lot in the Old Testament, is a prophet and messenger of God in the Qur'an. [1] [2] According to Islamic tradition, Lut was born to Haran and spent his younger years in Ur, later migrating to Canaan with his uncle Abraham. [3]
The location of Admah is unknown, [4] although Bryant G. Wood a proponent of the southern theory for the Cities of the Plain identified the site with Numeira, [5] but later changed it to Khirbat al-Khanazir Jordan, [6] although it was only a cemetery during the Bronze Age [7] and proponents of the northern theory for the Cities of the Plain ...
The Philistine Pentapolis: Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath, all combined to make Philistia.; In the biblical Holy Land, Genesis 14 describes the region where five cities—Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoara, Admah and Zeboim—united to resist the invasion of Chedorlaomer, and of which four were shortly after destroyed.