posted on Apr, 29 2003 @ 02:01 AM
You�ll find a long history of speculation that Sodom and Gomorrah did indeed perish beneath the Dead Sea.
There�s little clear help from the Bible. To be sure, there are not only numerous references in Genesis; but frequent references - Deuteronomy,
Isaiah, Jeremiah: just about anything bemoaning the wicked ways of the Israelites and Hebrews.
And in the New Testament, too: Gospels, Epistles right up to Revelation.
But it�s plain that all later references merely echo Genesis and the common metaphor of the Cities of the Plain as evidence that the Lord will destroy
the sinful: usually a warning to a �lapsed� Jerusalem.
Typical, would be
euteronomy 29 �the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning,�, or in Zephaniah:�the breeding of nettles, and
saltpits, and a perpetual desolation�
Which conveys the imagery of a wasteland with saltpits; but doesn�t really place the cities anywhere in particular.
But nothing contradicts the notion: so it can be a rewarding search.