Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>]

On the other hand I could be wrong.  Hard to conceive of a value-neutral 
explanation that involves the meaning of the word sodom, but I think you 
done found it.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX
tiggernut24 AT yahoo.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JP van de Giessen" <vdgiessen AT solcon.nl>
To: <JimStinehart AT aol.com>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What Does "Sodom" Mean?


> 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/