Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JP van de Giessen" <vdgiessen AT solcon.nl>]

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/