07-12-2023, 11:26
Und zum letzten Zitat ist anzumerken, dass es sich um einen allgemeinen Ueberblick zur Forschung zu diesem Thema handelt. Das dortige Fazit:
"The barren environment of the region reveals that it suffered a catastrophe, and suggests why biblical writers locate the cities there. However, the archaeological evidence to date does not permit the precise location of the five cities of the Plain in this region, nor the identification of Sodom with Bab adh-Dhra' and Gomorrah with Numayra or vice versa. It is possible that we have a combination of Judean and Israelite traditions of destruction of sinful cities south and north of the Dead Sea respectively."
Burton MacDonald, East of Jordan - Territories and Sites of Hebrew Scriptures (2000) American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, MA
*https://www.bu.edu/asor/pubs/books-monographs/macdonald.pdf
"The barren environment of the region reveals that it suffered a catastrophe, and suggests why biblical writers locate the cities there. However, the archaeological evidence to date does not permit the precise location of the five cities of the Plain in this region, nor the identification of Sodom with Bab adh-Dhra' and Gomorrah with Numayra or vice versa. It is possible that we have a combination of Judean and Israelite traditions of destruction of sinful cities south and north of the Dead Sea respectively."
Burton MacDonald, East of Jordan - Territories and Sites of Hebrew Scriptures (2000) American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, MA
*https://www.bu.edu/asor/pubs/books-monographs/macdonald.pdf