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Author Neev, David, author

Title The destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho : geological, climatological, and archaeological background / David Neev, K.O. Emery
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 175 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction -- General geology -- Climate inferred from geology and archaeology -- Environmental data for specific sites within the Dead Sea Region pp Coordination of Biblical and scientific information -- Sodom and Gomorrarah event -- Synopsis
Summary Among the most widely known of stories relating the destruction of entire cities is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah some 4350 years ago. These two cities, and Jericho as well, are situated along a major fault extending 1100 kilometres from the axis of the Red Sea to Turkey. Earthquakes, volcanic activity, variations by hundreds of metres of the level of the Dead Sea, and oscillations between arid and wet climates have affected the human settlements of the area for more than 10,000 years. In reviewing the geology, biblical paleogeography, and limnology of the region, this book will shed light on the tectonic and climatic changes of the past 6000 years and their control of cultural successions in the Middle East. The geologic study is the result of the author's collaborative research over many years; the receonstruction of human history is guided by the work of biblical archaeologists. While similar attempts to interpret the physical and geographic aspects of the story have been made during the past 2000 years, this latest contribution, unlike others, is based on solid scientific data
Analysis Geology
Palestine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Antiquities
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject Geology -- Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)
Paleoclimatology -- Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
Antiquities
Geology
Paleoclimatology
Geologie.
Paleoklimatologie.
Archeologie.
Sodom en Gomorra.
SUBJECT Sodom (Extinct city) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007657
Subject Israel -- Sodom (Extinct city)
Middle East -- Dead Sea
Form Electronic book
Author Emery, K. O. (Kenneth Orris), 1914-1998, author.
LC no. 94038788
ISBN 9780197560655
0197560652
9780195358063
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