[b-hebrew] What Does "Sodom" Mean?
Vadim Cherny
him at vadimcherny.org
Wed Nov 26 13:32:06 EST 2008
Jim,
without going into your other arguments, place names such as "scorched"
are in fact very common. I was recently driving, for example, through a
Russian village named Pogorelovo ("the burned one"), and there are many
similar examples.
Vadim Cherny
> I do not base my argument on Gesenius’ work. I specifically said that
whereas Gesenius sees “Sodom” as meaning “scorched”, no historical city would have
a name meaning “scorched”. Gesenius has missed the two more important puns
here, which tell us that rather than being a fictional city, Sodom for the
most part represents historical Beth Shan.
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