Rick Strassman

Oh, my God.

Something may have happened at that time.

That makes sense.

Yeah, that's a very interesting finding.

Sodom and Gomorrah, that's a great story.

I'm working on this translation of the Hebrew Bible.

I've got a sub stack now.

I've been putting out things every week, a chapter a week on my translation of the Bible.

It's like a thousand pages right now of commentary about the language and the grammar and the meaning that was called the plain meaning of the text.

Like there was a Noah with three sons and went on to Ark.

Yeah, so that's like my big project, but I'd like to do a smaller one about Sodom and Gomorrah and the figure of Lot.

I think that's a really incredible story.

I've spent about maybe two to three weeks looking at that.

You know, like Lot, his virgin daughters, the men circling his house, they're asking to know him.

He ends up in a cave with his two virgin daughters.

They get him drunk.

and he sleeps with them or they lie with him anyway and out come two kids at a certain point and they become very important later on they're the beginning of the messianic line so it's a very intricate tale with a very I think you can make some cool conversations between some of the main personages in the narrative there's a book called The Red Tent

Well, it's an explanation of Sodom and Gomorrah, which is around the Dead Sea.

There was a conflagration of some sort there.

Have any of your guests spoken about Sodom, what actually happened around the Dead Sea?