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== Tall el-Hammam and the City of Sodom ==

== Tall el-Hammam and the City of Sodom ==

[[File:Tall el-Hammam Excavation-Jordan Valley.jpg|thumb|right|Map of the location of Tall el-Hammam in the [[Jordan]], north of the [[Dead Sea]]]]

[[File:Tall el-Hammam Excavation-Jordan Valley.jpg|thumb|right|Map of the location of Tall el-Hammam in the [[Jordan]], north of the [[Dead Sea]]]]

Steven Collins is the chief archaeologist of the Tall-el Hammam Excavation Project under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,<ref>[http://digsodom.com/ Tall el Hammam Website]</ref> and so far this project has completed twelve seasons of excavations. Collins identifies Tall el-Hammam with the biblical [[Sodom]]. Steven Collins found Tall el-Hammam by following Genesis 13:1-12, what he says must be the primary biblical indicator of the location of the biblical Sodom.<ref>see ref 2, pp. 100-125.</ref>

Steven Collins is the chief archaeologist of the Tall-el Hammam Excavation Project under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,<ref>[http://digsodom.com/ Tall el Hammam Website]</ref> and so far this project has completed twelve seasons of excavations at [[Tall el-Hammam]]. Collins identifies Tall el-Hammam with the biblical [[Sodom]]. Steven Collins found Tall el-Hammam by following Genesis 13:1-12, what he says must be the primary biblical indicator of the location of the biblical Sodom.<ref>see ref 2, pp. 100-125.</ref>

''Genesis 13:1-12: Then Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev—he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him... He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been, to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there... At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives. Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left." Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other. Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities of the plain and set up his tent near Sodom.''

''Genesis 13:1-12: Then Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev—he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him... He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been, to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there... At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land. Then Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives. Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left." Lot looked out and saw that the entire Jordan Valley as far as Zoar was well watered everywhere like the Lord’s garden and the land of Egypt. This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other. Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities of the plain and set up his tent near Sodom.''