Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

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
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> Evanston, Illinois
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