Decoded: 'The clay tablet that tells how an asteroid destroyed Sodom 5,000 years ago'?, page 1
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Topic started on 2-4-2008 @ 12:43 AM by MikeboydUS

Decoded: 'The clay tablet that tells how an asteroid destroyed Sodom 5,000 years ago'?


www.dailymail.co.uk
A clay tablet that has baffled scientists for more than a century has been identified as a witness's account of an asteroid that destroyed the Biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah 5,000 years ago.

Researchers believe that the tablet's symbols give a detailed account of how a mile-long asteroid hit the region, causing thousands of deaths and devastating more than one million sq km (386,000 sq miles).
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reply posted on 2-4-2008 @ 03:15 AM by Lucid Lunacy
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. ~Gen 19:24-5)


And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.” ~Genesis 19:28


And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. ~Genesis 19:17


And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; ~Peter 2:6


Sodom and Gomorrah @ Wiki

Flavius Josephus, a Romano-Jewish historian, wrote something along the lines of:

Now, about this time the Sodomites, overwhelmingly proud of their numbers and the extent of their wealth, showed themselves insolent to men and impious to the divinity, insomuch that they no more remembered the benefits that they had received from him, hated foreigners and avoided any contact with others. Indignant at this conduct, God accordingly resolved to chastise them for their arrogance, and not only to uproot their city, but to blast their land so completely that it should yield neither plant nor fruit whatsoever from that time forward.
—Jewish Antiquities 1:194-195


And the angels came to the city of the Sodomites...when the Sodomites beheld the young men, who were outstanding in beauty of appearance and who had been received into Lots’s house, they set about to do violence and outrage to their youthful beauty....Therefore, God, indignant at their bold acts, struck them with blindness, so that they were unable to find the entrance into the house, and condemned the Sodomites to destruction of the whole population.
—Jewish Antiquities 1:199-202


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reply posted on 2-4-2008 @ 03:22 AM by FRIGHTENER
reply to post by MikeboydUS


Don't know, Mike- Star!

I'm always interested in asteroid theories. Seems very likely could be...

Ever since Eugene Shumacher's study of the 'Mechanics of Impact',
(proven by Shumacher-Levy 9 slamming into Jupiter in '93), i shudder at
the thought!

One of the scariest, most violent possibilities of an Extinction-Level-Event!


reply posted on 2-4-2008 @ 03:24 AM by MikeboydUS
reply to post by Lucid Lunacy


I wonder if a meteorite impact or some other physical reaction would of caused the massive amounts of salt in the area. I'm not a chemist, so it would be great if anyone with a background in that could comment if some kind "insert name"-chloride or some other chemical reaction could produce heat, flame, and leftover sodium chloride.


reply posted on 2-4-2008 @ 04:18 AM by MikeboydUS
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I was just reading that one idea is that Lot's wife was covered by pyroclastic sodium chloride which like the pyroclastic ash of pompeii would of encased her body in a shell. I would think both a volanic event or meteor impact can create a pyroclastic flow of salt, given there is enough in the area to heat up.
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