Dr. Dylan Johnson

And in fact, if you actually just look across the biblical text, Sodom is mentioned 38 times and Gomorrah only 19. And Gomorrah is only ever mentioned with Sodom.

And in fact, if you actually just look across the biblical text, Sodom is mentioned 38 times and Gomorrah only 19. And Gomorrah is only ever mentioned with Sodom.

And there's no independent stories about Gomorrah, right? It's just destroyed alongside Sodom. So if we're really going to focus in on the narrative, it's really Sodom we're talking about, and then Gomorrah kind of tags along. So that gets us to the end of the chapter, 18, and then the narrative switches.

And there's no independent stories about Gomorrah, right? It's just destroyed alongside Sodom. So if we're really going to focus in on the narrative, it's really Sodom we're talking about, and then Gomorrah kind of tags along. So that gets us to the end of the chapter, 18, and then the narrative switches.

And there's no independent stories about Gomorrah, right? It's just destroyed alongside Sodom. So if we're really going to focus in on the narrative, it's really Sodom we're talking about, and then Gomorrah kind of tags along. So that gets us to the end of the chapter, 18, and then the narrative switches.

And what happens is basically these other two men who are now suddenly called what are called malakim in Hebrew, angels, messengers, not human beings in any case. They're sent to Sodom and they go to the house of Lot. And again, this hospitality theme recurs. Lot brings them in. He shows them hospitality. The problem is, the Sodomites are the antithesis to that.

And what happens is basically these other two men who are now suddenly called what are called malakim in Hebrew, angels, messengers, not human beings in any case. They're sent to Sodom and they go to the house of Lot. And again, this hospitality theme recurs. Lot brings them in. He shows them hospitality. The problem is, the Sodomites are the antithesis to that.

And what happens is basically these other two men who are now suddenly called what are called malakim in Hebrew, angels, messengers, not human beings in any case. They're sent to Sodom and they go to the house of Lot. And again, this hospitality theme recurs. Lot brings them in. He shows them hospitality. The problem is, the Sodomites are the antithesis to that.

They show up at the door of Lot, and they demand that Lot give these two men angels, whatever they are, to the crowd, to the mob, and in proper euphemistic biblical words, so that they may know them.

They show up at the door of Lot, and they demand that Lot give these two men angels, whatever they are, to the crowd, to the mob, and in proper euphemistic biblical words, so that they may know them.

They show up at the door of Lot, and they demand that Lot give these two men angels, whatever they are, to the crowd, to the mob, and in proper euphemistic biblical words, so that they may know them.

And that specific line is where a whole bunch of associations of Sodom with sexual deviancy and other different sexual acts, that's where that derives from, because the threat is quite clearly sexual assault of some kind. Lot refuses. There's a strange offer to send his own daughters out to appease the mob.

And that specific line is where a whole bunch of associations of Sodom with sexual deviancy and other different sexual acts, that's where that derives from, because the threat is quite clearly sexual assault of some kind. Lot refuses. There's a strange offer to send his own daughters out to appease the mob.

And that specific line is where a whole bunch of associations of Sodom with sexual deviancy and other different sexual acts, that's where that derives from, because the threat is quite clearly sexual assault of some kind. Lot refuses. There's a strange offer to send his own daughters out to appease the mob.

It didn't come to fruition because ultimately, the messengers, the men, the angels, they managed to ferry Lot and his family out of the city, his wife, his children, to the nearby other city of the plain called Zoar. And then we get the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, presumably as well. with, again, these classical King James words, fire and brimstone.

It didn't come to fruition because ultimately, the messengers, the men, the angels, they managed to ferry Lot and his family out of the city, his wife, his children, to the nearby other city of the plain called Zoar. And then we get the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, presumably as well. with, again, these classical King James words, fire and brimstone.

It didn't come to fruition because ultimately, the messengers, the men, the angels, they managed to ferry Lot and his family out of the city, his wife, his children, to the nearby other city of the plain called Zoar. And then we get the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, presumably as well. with, again, these classical King James words, fire and brimstone.

No one knows what brimstone is anymore, but it's just sulfur. So the story essentially ends there. And then after this episode, these two cities, Sodom and Gomorrah, become bywords for sin and punishment.

No one knows what brimstone is anymore, but it's just sulfur. So the story essentially ends there. And then after this episode, these two cities, Sodom and Gomorrah, become bywords for sin and punishment.

No one knows what brimstone is anymore, but it's just sulfur. So the story essentially ends there. And then after this episode, these two cities, Sodom and Gomorrah, become bywords for sin and punishment.