Jihad at Sodom and Gomorrah

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  cameo-d

  Remembering Lot's Wife

  The previous night Lot's wife revealed to the inhabitants of Sodom that they had guests by asking one of the neighbors for salt to flavor the food that she prepared them. In Sodom it was forbidden to invite guests into one's house, and Lot's wife was perfectly aware that by asking for salt she was placing the lives of the guests in extreme danger. After she looked back, even though she had been instructed not to, she received the punishment of being turned into a pillar of salt.

  Sources:

  • Midrash Rabbah, Genesis 51:5

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  The name of Lot’s wife was Eidis (possibly related to the secular name Edith). Her name is not mentioned in the Written Torah, but this tradition is recorded in the Midrash Pirkei d’Rebbe Eliezer at the end of Chapter 25 and the Midrash Yalkut Shimoni 19:84.

  Shlomo Shulman

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  Lot's wife

  Name: Ado ( or Edith )

  Source: Book of Jasher 19:24
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  Appears in the Bible at: Book of Genesis

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  A reader emailed me to tell me that: "There was a question (answer) on Jeopardy referring to Lot's wife and as a salty character and said her name was Ildeth. This particular show aired on March 24, 2004"

  This may be her name, but the bible doesn't tell us for sure.

  http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/lotswife.html

  (hmmmm....maybe that was the same episode with the bible questions where NWT was cited as being "the most accurate translation".)
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  cameo-d

  Could it be that explosives were planted along the faultline in order to cause an earthquake?

  Geologists have theorized that pressure from an earthquake could have spewed out sulphus-laden bitumen known to be in the area through the fault line upon which these cities rested. The dense smoke reported by Abraham is consistent with a fire from such material which could have been ignited by a spark or ground fire.

  Could the sulphur balls discovered in the area reveal the ancient pyrotechnics used in this planned and orchestrated destruction?

  ...numerous yellowish balls inside this broken ash, all surrounded by a reddish-black, crusty ring. Prying one out, he recognized it as sulfur. Smelling it, he KNEW it was sulfur. Here was the evidence they needed- all through the ashen remains were round balls of sulfur (brimstone) encapsulated in burnt sulfur.

  As they looked around, now knowing what to look for, they saw these sulfur balls literally everywhere they looked. Before, we hadn't been able to see them because the loose ash had covered everything. But now the rain washed away the loose ash and caused this section to fall way, revealing these sulfur balls embedded through the ashen material. The reddish-black crystalline material surrounding the sulfur balls showed that they had once been on fire. It seems that as these burning balls of brimstone fell from the sky, they burned right through everything. And as they burned, after a while, molten material surrounding the sulfur cut if off from the oxygen, preserving it in the interior of the ashes.

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  Sulfur in such a pure form, in rounded balls simply isn't found anywhere else on earth except in this region, that we've been able to ascertain. And reports have come in that these have been found quite far north, which verifies Ron's belief that this plain was quite large. We have talked with numerous geologists and chemists without telling them why we were asking. However, we weren't the first ones to discover these sulfur balls in the region

  http://www.pilgrimpromo.com/WAR/discovered/html/chapter07.htm
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  cameo-d

  Just curious as to why no one has commented. Is this subject of no interest?
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  shamus100

  Just curious as to why no one has commented. Is this subject of no interest?

  BINGO! Typically ex-dubs have no interest in bible menutia, but there are exceptions.
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  cameo-d

  Salt added to flame weapons makes a bright orange flame.

  The biggest use of chemicals in war in ancient times was in the area of flame weapons. The first use of fire in war probably followed shortly after the discovery of how to make it appear on command. By the Fourth Century B.C., a number of recipes existed for producing incendiary compositions, such as that provided by Aineias in his On the Defense of Fortified Positions, which comprised pitch, sulfur, tow, granulated frankincense, and pine sawdust in sacks which were set alight. Aineias cites as the virtue of this mixture the difficulty of extinguishing it; while the sulfur, at least, would also have produced toxic fumes, this does not seem to have be given any particular import. Indeed, although a variety of mixtures were used containing an astonishing number of additives, the major interest in additives seems to have been related to their perceived value in producing a hotter flame (for instance, salt appears to have been added commonly because it produced a visible orange flame), rather than for the production of choking or irritating smoke.

  http://www.cbwinfo.com/History/History.html