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  • From: "JP van de Giessen" <vdgiessen AT solcon.nl>
  • To: JimStinehart AT aol.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What Does "Sodom" Mean?
  • Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:36:04 +0100

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:14:12 EST, JimStinehart wrote

> The only
> valley of grain-producing “fields”/sidim in Canaan was the
> Jezreel Valley. The Valley of “Fields”/Sidim is the Jezreel
> Valley. “Sodom”, which sounds so much like sidim/“fields”,
> is the “fields”/sidim city in the Jezreel Valley, namely Beth Shan.

>From archaeological evidence we know there was also production of grain in
Jericho and Beida, south-east of the Dead Sea (7000-6000 BCE).

JP van de Giessen
Blog: http://bijbelaantekeningen.blogspot.com/





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