[...]... subjects: the overturning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the conquest and destruction of Jericho, the identification of sites and routes near the Dead Sea, and the story of Noah's Flood The first three subjects were treated with great care and accuracy in the ancient descriptions, indicating that oral and later written descriptions were by people familiar with the region and with the importance of the events in the. .. cities of the plain probably existed; however, the study extends beyond the actual limits of the south basin and after the dates of destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah to include the fall of Jericho All three cities lay along the same major geological structure, the strike-slip fault that extends from the Red Sea to Turkey and whose movements affected the cultural history of sites along the entire length of. .. aspects of the basin: deep and shallow stratigraphy, structural history, seismology, sedimentological 3 4 The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho processes, and the physical and chemical properties of the water Archaeological studies in the region are reviewed Although most of these studies are applicable to exploration for oil and gas or extraction of salts from brines, their results illuminate the. .. east of the Lisan Peninsula implies that no horizontal shift of appreciable magnitude could have occurred along that fault of the Dead Sea graben since Miocene (Table 2.1) Knowledge about the movement of faults that formed the Dead Sea graben and their control over the positions of earthquakes is a major contribution of geology to the understanding of the fates of Sodom, Gomorrah, Jericho, and other... Photolineaments and reference map of the Dead Sea region between En Gedi at the north and the Amazyahu escarpment at the south It is based on data from Nasr (1949) and the 100,000-scale merged Spot-Landsat TM (STM) satellite image of Historical Productions (1990) Also shown are 9 10 The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho Salt Sea The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah in their flight fell into bitumen... valley The invaders took with them the defeated kings and Lot as captives, their possessions, and all the wealth and provisions of Sodom and Gomorrah The news reached Abraham at Mamr'e, who then with his 318 retainers pursued the invaders, battled them victoriously north of Damascus and returned all people and possessions to Sodom Genesis 18:16-33 and 19:1-30 (Overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah) The sinfulness... superimposed on the central segment of a much longer arc that is slightly convex toward the east between the head of the Gulf of Elath (Aqaba) at the south and Mount Hermon at the north (Figure 1.2) 4 The East border fault of the Dead Sea graben forms a uniform and steep escarpment between its junction with the Amazyahu fault and the northeast corner of the sea but is structurally interrupted near the Lisan... example is the westward migration of the Huns that occurred in two stages during the 2nd and 4th to 5th centuries A.D.: their movement into Siberia and Russia was followed by a further invasion stressing the Goths and initiating the collapse of the Roman Empire (Encyclopedia Hebraica, 1961) An effort to interpret physical and geographical aspects of the biblical traditions of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho. .. Bartov, and Hunziger, 1978) This sort of crustal movement along either side of a rift is termed strike-slip faulting One result of it was the opening of the Red Sea relative to the Gulf of Suez The Dead Sea graben, a down-dropped block between two roughly parallel faults, occupies the central segment of the long crustal rift The boundary between these is rather sharp along the east shore of the sea... along the north-northeast-trending Jordan or Dead Sea fault (Ben-Menahem et al., 1977, fig 1) The movements extend south from east of Jericho in the north along the base of the west submarine slope of the sea and the elongate salt diapir of Mount Sedom as far as the Amazyahu fault in the south (Figure 1.4; Neev and Hall, 1979, figure 12) The Arava and Jordan faults are parallel, both being components of . Survey of Israel, from Landsat imagery and soundings in sea. Names of sites as on Figures 1.3 and 1.4. The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho Geological, Climatological, and . subjects: the over- turning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the conquest and destruction of Jeri- cho, the identification of sites and routes near the Dead Sea, and the story of Noah's. w0 h1" alt="" The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho Relief map of the south two-thirds of the Dead Sea between En Gedi in the north and Hatzeva in the south. Prepared