[b-hebrew] Sodom's Historical Sin: Etymology and Geography

James Christian jc.bhebrew at googlemail.com
Sun Jan 31 11:17:34 EST 2010


Jim,

thanks for staying on topic and making your answer short enough to digest. I
get what you're saying but doesn't the context sound to you like the author
is implying that in his day the area in question was still very much in a
state of destruction?

James Christian


2010/1/31 <JimStinehart at aol.com>

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> The word used at Genesis 19: 25 is HPK, which means “overturn”.  Sodom and Gomorrah, and possibly Admah and Zeboiim as well, are “overturned”, including the fertile fields of the Valley of Fields where they were located.  It’s a fiery destruction, and the smoke from it can be seen as far south as that same mountaintop near Bethel where, years earlier, Lot had made the eastern Jezreel Valley his choice of location for living the soft life.
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> The historical parallel to Sodom and Gomorrah going up in smoke is Qatna, which was burned to the ground by the Hittites in Year 14 and never reinhabited.
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> The Hebrew word HPK does not say or imply that nothing ever grew again in the “Valley of Fields”.  It simply means “overturn”.
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> Jim Stinehart
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> Evanston, Illinois
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