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Sodom and Gomorrah, the Glossary

In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness.^[1]

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ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.

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Abomination (Bible)

Abomination is an English term used to translate the Biblical Hebrew terms shiqquts and, which are derived from, or the terms, or (noun) or (verb).

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Abraham

Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Sodom and Gomorrah and Abraham are Lech-Lecha and Vayeira.

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Abrahamic religions

The Abrahamic religions are a grouping of three of the major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) together due to their historical coexistence and competition; it refers to Abraham, a figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, and the Quran, and is used to show similarities between these religions and put them in contrast to Indian religions, Iranian religions, and the East Asian religions (though other religions and belief systems may refer to Abraham as well).

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Admah

According to the Bible, Admah (Heb. אַדְמָה) was one of the five cities of the Vale of Siddim. Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah are Destroyed populated places and Torah cities.

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Adultery

Adultery is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds.

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Akkadian language

Akkadian (translit)John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.

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Al Hejr

Al-Ḥijr (Stoneland) is the 15th sūrah (chapter of the Quran).

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Allah

Allah (ﷲ|translit.

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Ammon

Ammon (Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ʻAmān; עַמּוֹן; ʻAmmūn) was an ancient Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. Sodom and Gomorrah and Ammon are Vayeira.

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Amos (prophet)

Amos (עָמוֹס – ʿĀmōs) was one of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.

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Anal sex

Anal sex or anal intercourse is generally the insertion and thrusting of the erect penis into a person's anus, or anus and rectum, for sexual pleasure.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

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Antiquities of the Jews

Antiquities of the Jews (Antiquitates Iudaicae; Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian Josephus in the 13th year of the reign of Roman emperor Domitian, which was 94 CE.

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Archibald Sayce

Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 18454 February 1933) was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.

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Ash-Shu'ara

Ash-Shu‘ara’ (الشعراء,; The Poets) is the 26th chapter (sūrah) of the Qurʾan with 227 verses (āyāt).

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Ayin

Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).

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Bab edh-Dhra

Bab edh-Dhra (Bâb edh-Dhrâʿباب الذراع.) is the site of an Early Bronze Age city located near the Dead Sea, on the south bank of Wadi Kerak with dates in the EB IB, EB II, EB III and EB IVA.

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Babylon

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.

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Battle of Siddim

The Battle of the Vale of Siddim, also often called the War of Nine Kings or the Slaughter of Chedorlaomer, is an event in the Hebrew Bible book of that occurs in the days of Abram and Lot. Sodom and Gomorrah and Battle of Siddim are book of Genesis and Lech-Lecha.

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Biblical Archaeology Review

Biblical Archaeology Review is a magazine appearing every three months and sometimes referred to as BAR that seeks to connect the academic study of archaeology to a broad general audience seeking to understand the world of the Bible, the Near East, and the Middle East (Syro-Palestine and the Levant).

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Book of Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy (second law; Liber Deuteronomii) is the fifth book of the Torah (in Judaism), where it is called (דְּבָרִים|Dəḇārīm| words) and the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament.

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Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah.

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Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Book of Judges

The Book of Judges (Sefer Shoftim; Κριτές; Liber Iudicum) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Burton MacDonald

Burton MacDonald (September 13, 1939 – October 20, 2022) was a Canadian biblical archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of Jordan.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Cengage Group

Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.

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Charnel house

A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored.

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Chedorlaomer

Chedorlaomer, also spelled Kedorlaomer (Χοδολλογομόρ Khodollogomor), is a king of Elam mentioned in Genesis 14. Sodom and Gomorrah and Chedorlaomer are Lech-Lecha.

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Christian van Adrichem

Christian Kruik van Adrichem, or Christianus Crucius Adrichomius, (February 13, 1533 – June 20, 1585) was a Catholic priest and theological writer.

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Christianity and homosexuality

Within Christianity, there are a variety of views on sexual orientation and homosexuality. Sodom and Gomorrah and Christianity and homosexuality are LGBT and Christianity.

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Christianity and sexual orientation

Christian denominations have a variety of beliefs about sexual orientation, including beliefs about same-sex sexual practices and asexuality. Sodom and Gomorrah and Christianity and sexual orientation are LGBT and Christianity.

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Crime against nature

The crime against nature or unnatural act has historically been a legal term in English-speaking states identifying forms of sexual behavior not considered natural or decent and are legally punishable offenses.

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Cuneiform

Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.

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Dead Sea

The Dead Sea (al-Baḥr al-Mayyit, or label; Yām hamMelaḥ), also known by other names, is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel to the west.

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Deuterocanonical books

The deuterocanonical books, meaning "Of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon," collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC), are certain books and passages considered to be canonical books of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East, but which modern Jews and many Protestants regard as Apocrypha.

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Dismemberment

Dismemberment is the act of completely disconnecting and or removing the limbs from a living or dead being.

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Divine judgment

Divine judgment means the judgment of God or other supreme beings and deities within a religion or a spiritual belief.

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Divine providence

In theology, divine providence, or simply providence, is God's intervention in the Universe.

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Ebla

Ebla (Sumerian: eb₂-la, إبلا., modern: تل مرديخ, Tell Mardikh) was one of the earliest kingdoms in Syria.

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Edom

Edom (Edomite: 𐤀𐤃𐤌; אֱדוֹם, lit.: "red"; Akkadian: 𒌑𒁺𒈪, 𒌑𒁺𒈬; Ancient Egyptian) was an ancient kingdom in Transjordan, located between Moab to the northeast, the Arabah to the west, and the Arabian Desert to the south and east.

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Elam

Elam (Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite:; Sumerian:; Akkadian:; עֵילָם ʿēlām; 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq.

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Eliezer

Eliezer ("Help/Court of El") was the name of at least three different individuals in the Bible.

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Emar

Emar, is an archaeological site at Tell Meskene in the Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria.

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Epistle of Jude

The Epistle of Jude is the penultimate book of the New Testament as well as the Christian Bible.

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Eschatology

Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.

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Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን, Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.

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Exegesis

Exegesis (from the Greek ἐξήγησις, from ἐξηγεῖσθαι, "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text.

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Extortion

Extortion is the practice of obtaining benefit (e.g., money or goods) through coercion.

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Ezekiel

Ezekiel, also spelled Ezechiel (יְחֶזְקֵאל; Greek), was an Israelite priest.

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Ezra

Ezra (fl. 480–440 BCE) was an important Jewish scribe (sofer) and priest (kohen) in the early Second Temple period.

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Gabriel

In the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baháʼí Faith), Gabriel is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to mankind.

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Gale (publisher)

Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.

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Gay men

Gay men are male homosexuals. Sodom and Gomorrah and Gay men are male homosexuality.

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Genesis flood narrative

The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth.

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Ghayn

The Arabic letter (غَيْنْ, or) is the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being). It represents the sound or.

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Giovanni Pettinato

Giovanni Pettinato (30 April 1934, in Troina – 19 May 2011, in Rome) was an Assyriologist and paleographer of writings from the ancient Near East, specializing in the Eblaite language, His major contributions to the field include the deciphering of the Eblaite script, discovered by Paolo Matthiae in 1974–75.

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Gnosticism

Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek:, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: ɣnostiˈkos, 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects.

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God in Abrahamic religions

Monotheism—the belief that there is only one deity—is the focus of the Abrahamic religions, which like-mindedly conceive God as the all-powerful and all-knowing deity from whom Abraham received a divine revelation, according to their respective narratives.

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Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.

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History of the ancient Levant

The Levant is the area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia in the east.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is sexual attraction, romantic attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Homosexuality and religion

The relationship between religion and homosexuality has varied greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and denominations, with regard to different forms of homosexuality and bisexuality. Sodom and Gomorrah and homosexuality and religion are LGBT and religion.

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Homosexuality in the Hebrew Bible

There are a number of passages in the Hebrew Bible that have been interpreted as involving same-sex sexual acts, desires, and relationships. Sodom and Gomorrah and Homosexuality in the Hebrew Bible are bible-related controversies, LGBT and Christianity and LGBT and Judaism.

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Hospitality

Hospitality is the relationship of a host towards a guest, wherein the host receives the guest with some amount of goodwill and welcome.

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Hospitium

Hospitium (ξενία, xenia, προξενία) is the ancient Greco-Roman concept of hospitality as a divine right of the guest and a divine duty of the host.

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Ibn Kathir

Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi (translit), known simply as Ibn Kathir, was an Arab Islamic exegete, historian and scholar.

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Isaiah

Isaiah (or; יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Yəšaʿyāhū, "Yahweh is salvation"; also known as Isaias or Esaias from Ἠσαΐας) was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.

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Islamic views on sin

Sin is an important concept in Islamic ethics that Muslims view as being anything that goes against the commands of God or breaching the laws and norms laid down by religion.

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Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson (born May 5, 1971) is an American writer, journalist, professor, and rabbi.

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Jeremiah

Jeremiah (–), also called Jeremias or the "weeping prophet", was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. Sodom and Gomorrah and Jerusalem are Torah cities.

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Jewish views on homosexuality

The subject of homosexuality and Judaism dates back to the Torah. Sodom and Gomorrah and Jewish views on homosexuality are LGBT and Judaism.

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Jon D. Levenson

Jon Douglas Levenson is an American Hebrew Bible scholar who is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at the Harvard Divinity School.

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Jordan Rift Valley

The Jordan Rift Valley, also Jordan Valley also called the Syro-African Depression, is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan and the West Bank.

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Josephus

Flavius Josephus (Ἰώσηπος,; AD 37 – 100) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader.

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King James Version

on the title-page of the first edition and in the entries in works like the "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", etc.--> The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.

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Last Judgment

The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (translit or label) is a concept found across the Abrahamic religions and the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism. Sodom and Gomorrah and Last Judgment are biblical phrases.

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Levite's concubine

The episode of the Levite's concubine, also known as the Benjamite War, in Judges 19–21 concerns a Levite from Ephraim and his concubine. Sodom and Gomorrah and Levite's concubine are Gang rape, Gang rape in Asia and Sexuality in the Bible.

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LGBT people and Islam

Within the Muslim world, sentiment towards LGBT people varies and has varied between societies and individual Muslims, but is contemporarily negative. Sodom and Gomorrah and LGBT people and Islam are LGBT and Islam.

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Looking taboo

Looking taboo is a motif (a recurring element) in mythology, folklore and works of fiction.

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Lot (biblical person)

Lot (לוֹט Lōṭ, lit. "veil" or "covering"; Λώτ Lṓt; لُوط Lūṭ; Syriac: ܠܘܛ Lōṭ) was a man mentioned in the biblical Book of Genesis, chapters 11–14 and 19. Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot (biblical person) are anal sex, Lech-Lecha, male homosexuality and Vayeira.

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Lot's daughters

The daughters of the biblical patriarch Lot appear in chapter 19 of the Book of Genesis, in two connected stories.

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Lot's wife

In the Bible, Lot's wife is a figure first mentioned in. Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot's wife are Vayeira.

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Marvin Meyer

Marvin W. Meyer (April 16, 1948 – August 16, 2012) was a scholar of religion and a tenured professor at Chapman University, in Orange, California.

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Masada

Masada (מְצָדָה, 'fortress'; جبل مسعدة) is an ancient fortification in southern Israel, situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa.

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Menachem Mendel Kasher

Menachem Mendel Kasher (מנחם מנדל כשר; March 7, 1895 – November 3, 1983) was a Polish-born Israeli rabbi and prolific author who authored an encyclopedic work on the Torah entitled Torah Sheleimah.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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Mishnah

The Mishnah or the Mishna (מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions that are known as the Oral Torah.

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Moab

Moab is an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan. Sodom and Gomorrah and Moab are Vayeira.

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Mount Sodom

Mount Sodom (הר סדום, Har Sedom) is a hill along the southwestern part of the Dead Sea in Israel; it is part of the Judaean Desert Nature Reserve.

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Nag Hammadi library

The Nag Hammadi library (also known as the "Chenoboskion Manuscripts" and the "Gnostic Gospels") is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.

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Nancy Lapp

Nancy L. Lapp (née Renn, 1930) is an American archaeologist and biblical scholar who has worked on a number of sites in Jordan and Palestine, alongside her husband, Paul Lapp.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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National Library of Israel

The National Library of Israel (NLI; translit; المكتبة الوطنية في إسرائيل), formerly Jewish National and University Library (JNUL; translit), is the library dedicated to collecting the cultural treasures of Israel and of Jewish heritage.

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Natural disaster

A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event.

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Near Eastern Archaeology (journal)

Near Eastern Archaeology is an American journal covering art, archaeology, history, anthropology, literature, philology, and epigraphy of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds from the Palaeolithic through Ottoman periods.

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Nevi'im

The (נְבִיאִים Nəvīʾīm, Tiberian: Năḇīʾīm 'Prophets') is the second major division of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh), lying between the and.

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New International Version

The New International Version (NIV) is a translation of the Bible into contemporary English.

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New King James Version

The New King James Version (NKJV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English.

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New Living Translation

The New Living Translation (NLT) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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Numeira

Numeira (also an-Numayra) is an archaeological site in Jordan near the southern Dead Sea.

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Oral sex

Oral sex, sometimes referred to as oral intercourse, is sexual activity involving the stimulation of the genitalia of a person by another person using the mouth (including the lips, tongue, or teeth).

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.

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Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon

The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.

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Paradigm

In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.

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Paraphrase of Shem

The Paraphrase of Shem is a Gnostic text.

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Parashah

The term parashah, parasha or parashat (פָּרָשָׁה Pārāšâ, "portion", Tiberian, Sephardi, plural: parashot or parashiyot, also called parsha) formally means a section of a biblical book in the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).

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Pejorative

A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something.

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Philo

Philo of Alexandria (Phílōn; Yəḏīḏyāh), also called italics, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt.

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Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (PTS) is a Presbyterian graduate seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Procrustes

In Greek mythology, Procrustes (Greek: Προκρούστης Prokroustes, "the stretcher "), also known as Prokoptas, Damastes (Δαμαστής, "subduer") or Polypemon, was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who attacked people by stretching them or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed.

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Prophets and messengers in Islam

Prophets in Islam (translit) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Rabbinic literature

Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history.

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Rabbinical Council of America

The Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) is one of the world's largest organizations of Orthodox rabbis; it is affiliated with The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, more commonly known as the Orthodox Union (OU).

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Rack (torture)

The rack is a torture device consisting of a rectangular, usually wooden frame, slightly raised from the ground, with a roller at one or both ends.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Religion and LGBT people

The relationship between religion and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people can vary greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and sects, and regarding different forms of homosexuality, bisexuality, non-binary, and transgender identities. Sodom and Gomorrah and religion and LGBT people are LGBT and religion.

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Rictor Norton

Rictor Norton (born 1945) is an American writer on literary and cultural history, particularly queer history.

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Sefer haYashar (midrash)

Sefer haYashar (ספר הישר) is a medieval Hebrew midrash, also known as the Toledot Adam and Divrei haYamim heArukh.

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Semitic root

The roots of verbs and most nouns in the Semitic languages are characterized as a sequence of consonants or "radicals" (hence the term consonantal root).

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Sennacherib

Sennacherib (𒀭𒌍𒉽𒈨𒌍𒋢|translit.

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Septuagint

The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.

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Shambhala Publications

Shambhala Publications is an independent publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado.

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Sharia

Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.

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Shem

Shem (שֵׁם Šēm; Sām) was one of the sons of Noah in the Bible (Genesis 5–11 and 1 Chronicles 1:4).

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Sin

In a religious context, sin is a transgression against divine law or a law of the deities.

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Sodomy

Sodomy, also called buggery in British English, generally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any sexual activity between a human and another animal (bestiality). Sodom and Gomorrah and Sodomy are anal sex.

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Strabo

StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.

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The Bible and homosexuality

There are a number of passages in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament that have been interpreted as involving same-sex sexual activity and relationships. Sodom and Gomorrah and the Bible and homosexuality are bible-related controversies, LGBT and Christianity, LGBT and Judaism and Sexuality in the Bible.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah

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