Southern Sodom Theory Essay
The question is still pending to this day as to where the real Sodom and Gomorrah or rather the Plain Cities are located and do they really exist. There has been constant controversy over the area of the Dead Sea, a northern finding and a southern finding. The NST according to Steven Collins of the Dead Sea, and the SST according to Bryant Wood
According to Bryant Wood in 2008, his findings from the excavation known as SST or the Southern Sodom Theory, aka Ba’b edh-Dhrà . Steven Collins in 2007 forms another theory the NST or Northern Sodom Theory, aka Tall el-Hamman nestled in the upper region of the Dead Sea .
Both Collins and Wood refer to Genesis 13:13-19 as references for the information that has been discovered so far. Using patriarchs such as Abraham, when he looks down to see the Cities of the Plains from an area known as Hebron, in Gen. 19:28 . Collins and Wood have referred to the Bible and the times of the Patriarchs and their lives including Abraham, Sarah, and Lot. However they see these individuals of Biblical history at different times and settings.
Wood refers to it as the Early Bronze Age or EBA. He references to the time of Lot and Abraham coming to a point of separation Gen. 13:10-13. Another reference that has been located according to wood is the City Gate that Lot sat at …show more content…
for the time of the Patriarchs . There have been several other historians throughout the ages that also agree that the Sin Cities are located in the Southern Region: Josephus. Tacitus . The one thing that stands out about Wood and his findings Sodom and Gomorrah he never did excavate any of the areas listed. He formed his hypotheses on the facts of others that had excavated the areas prior too . He did do surface evaluations and survey, but never actually formed any digs. Wood and Collins, along with other archaeologist, have on several other occasions' excavated digs together, just not this one
According to Bryant Wood in 2008, his findings from the excavation known as SST or the Southern Sodom Theory, aka Ba’b edh-Dhrà . Steven Collins in 2007 forms another theory the NST or Northern Sodom Theory, aka Tall el-Hamman nestled in the upper region of the Dead Sea .
Both Collins and Wood refer to Genesis 13:13-19 as references for the information that has been discovered so far. Using patriarchs such as Abraham, when he looks down to see the Cities of the Plains from an area known as Hebron, in Gen. 19:28 . Collins and Wood have referred to the Bible and the times of the Patriarchs and their lives including Abraham, Sarah, and Lot. However they see these individuals of Biblical history at different times and settings.
Wood refers to it as the Early Bronze Age or EBA. He references to the time of Lot and Abraham coming to a point of separation Gen. 13:10-13. Another reference that has been located according to wood is the City Gate that Lot sat at …show more content…
for the time of the Patriarchs . There have been several other historians throughout the ages that also agree that the Sin Cities are located in the Southern Region: Josephus. Tacitus . The one thing that stands out about Wood and his findings Sodom and Gomorrah he never did excavate any of the areas listed. He formed his hypotheses on the facts of others that had excavated the areas prior too . He did do surface evaluations and survey, but never actually formed any digs. Wood and Collins, along with other archaeologist, have on several other occasions' excavated digs together, just not this one