Posted on 11/03/2023 1:30:03 AM PDT by spirited irish
Scientists have found evidence of a cosmic airburst event around 1650 BCE that devastated the ancient city of Tall el-Hammam in the southern Jordan Valley, causing extreme temperatures and depositing high concentrations of salt. This event, potentially inspiring the biblical tales of Sodom and Jericho’s destruction, might have also led to a mass abandonment of cities in the region during the “Late Bronze Age Gap.”
In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3,600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high ground in the southern Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea, the settlement in its time had become the largest continuously occupied Bronze Age city in the southern Levant, having hosted early civilization for a few thousand years. At that time, it was 10 times larger than Jerusalem and 5 times larger than Jericho.
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And they had pride parades.
And hands on obscene sex ed for children
Can you say, “HAND OF GOD”!
Yep! But of course, “scientists” will dance everywhere around the facts to discredit the biblical accounts and God in general (that’s the point). Next up: climate change caused it all to happen cuz those horses, cows, sheep and the carts pulled were all emitting those nasty CO2 particles, doncha know
I know I know...no dots connect there, but here we are! 😉
I believe you are correct sir. 👍
Here’s the original study. Wow.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3#Sec66
If this wasn’t Sodom or Jericho, then how the heck is it NOT in the Bible?
BTW, the authors do NOT rule out the possibility of this being Sodom...
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If Noah's Ark was indisputably found that would be classified as "potentially inspiring tales of the flood and Noah's Ark"
If the empty tomb of Christ was indisputably found that would be classified as "potentially inspiring tales of the Risen Christ"
These people hate you. They hate everything about you. They especially hate your Bible and your God. (you = Christians)
Thank-you for sharing!
Also of note - depending on the angle of view, per the modeling, the airburst would absolutely look like an immense pillar of fire...
Regarding this proposed airburst, an eyewitness description of this 3600-year-old catastrophic event may have been passed down as an oral tradition that eventually became the written biblical account about the destruction of Sodom.
It was God, NOT a *cosmic impact*.
The shock of the explosion over Tall el-Hammam was enough to level the city, flattening the palace and surrounding walls and mudbrick structures, according to the paper. The distribution of bones indicated “extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans.”
For Kennett, further proof of the airburst was found by conducting many different kinds of analyses on soil and sediments from the critical layer. Tiny iron- and silica-rich spherules turned up in their analysis, as did melted metals.
“I think one of the main discoveries is shocked quartz. These are sand grains containing cracks that form only under very high pressure,” Kennett said of one of many lines of evidence that point to a large airburst near Tall el-Hammam. “We have shocked quartz from this layer, and that means there were incredible pressures involved to shock the quartz crystals — quartz is one of the hardest minerals; it’s very hard to shock.”
Very interesting article.
The article from SciTechDaily used by Patriot and Liberty is a couple of years old. Here is a link to the original posting from Sept 20 2021, with a byline from UC - Santa Barbara:
Sodom and Gomorrah? Evidence That a Cosmic Impact Destroyed a Biblical City in the Jordan Valley
A second publishing of the same basic article, this time from the Univ of S Carolina, happened on Sept 27 2021:
Fire and Brimstone: A Giant Space Rock Demolished an Ancient Middle Eastern City and Everyone in It
The second one has better illustrations, at least for my purposes.
Thanks for posting that link. It’s a fascinating read.
My goodness, hurricanes are acts of God, but in the meteorological community as well as the general public they are discussed as "hurricanes"...
Why do they use BCE? and Celsius?
This is similar to the complaints about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis creating the Carolina Bays phenomenon, and there are plenty of geologists who do not like talented amateurs intruding into their club.
So if you like rabbit trails, follow along!
The first and original publication:
A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, dated Sept 20/27 2021.
Then there are two authors corrections:
Author Correction: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, dated Feb 22, 2022; and
Author Correction: A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea, dated May 22 2023.
I see few article that include author corrections, and these seem (to me) to be minor corrections to the process and writing, but do not change the conclusions of the article.
And here is a "rebuttal" to the original article:
No mineralogic or geochemical evidence of impact at Tall el-Hammam, a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea by Steven J Jaret and R Scott Harris.
And the editors from Springer Nature of course, must grab for a fig leaf along the way:
15 February 2023: Editor’s Note: Readers are alerted that concerns raised about the data presented and the conclusions of this article are being considered by the Editors. A further editorial response will follow the resolution of these issues.
So the scientific mafia is out with long knives to suppress anything that coincides with their ideology. After reading the challenges, it does seem that Jaret and Harris are objecting to the possibility of an extra-terrestrial event causing the destruction of Tall el-Hamman.
To me, locating the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, their instant destruction and corroborating an eyewitness account (in Genesis) seem to be a more important conclusion.
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