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  • From: James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>
  • To: JimStinehart AT aol.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Sodom's Historical Sin: Etymology and Geography
  • Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:17:34 +0000

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>

> James Christian:
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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
>
> Evanston, Illinois
>




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