Northern Kentucky's Evening Interdenominational Community Bible Study Photos for Lesson 11, Gen 18-19 Click Here for Lesson 11 Presentation Text Click Here to return to GENESIS Home Page

Right: Traditional site of the great trees of Mamre in the Hebron region. Here Abraham was visited by God Himself and two angels; God gave a timetable for the birth of Sarah's son Isaac, and Abraham negotiated with God over the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Sodom and Gomorrah have never been found, and were traditionally believed covered by the Dead Sea. Recently a large graveyard -- without a city of comparable size nearby -- was found in a place called Bab edh-Dhra (below), 500 yards from the Dead Sea. The dates match the time of Abraham, and the site is close to the traditional location of Sodom.

Left: Bab Edh-Dhra description (British Museum). Center: Bab Edh-Dhra overview. Right: View of Bab Edh-Dhra from Masada, looking across the Dead Sea (in the vicinity of the Lissan Peninsula, where the sea is like mineral sludge). Below: Artifacts taken from Bab Edh-Dhra tombs (British Museum).

Left: "Sanctuary of Lot," a cave in the mountains above Zoar, where it is believed Lot sought sanctuary after fleeing Sodom, and where Moab and Ben-Ammi -- forefathers of the Moabites and Ammonites -- were conceived through incest.