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To what small city did God petrnit Lot to go? What
were his excuses for wanting,
What was the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah?
What are the theories as to the nature of this ca-
tastrophe?
What is the great moral lesson-for man to learn from
it?
When and why does moral necessity demand penal
infliction by Absolute Justice?
What are the reasons for rejecting the view that the
catastrophe produced the entire Dead Sea as it is
known today?
What is the traditional theory as to the location of
the Cities of the Plain? Why is this theory now
generally rejected?
What is Kraeling’s view of their location, and why?
What does Cornfeld have to say about this problem?
Explain how the natural and the supernatural could
have been combined in producing the catastrophe.
What was the fate of Lot’s wife? What is the most
plausible explanation ob what happened to her?
What, in all probability, motivated her reluctance to
“escape for her life”?
What was the sight that greeted Abraham when he
looked out on the evidences of the disaster?
In what three ways did the catastrophe witness, in
subsequent times, to its severity?
It is stated that in many instances the Bible speaks
more forcefully by what it omits than by what it
tells us. Give examples.
To what does God’s destruction of Sodom and Go-
morrah point forward to, ultimately?
In what respects is the story of Lot’s wife far superior
to all folk tales of the kind?
Why the change in the name of the Deity to Elohim,
in v. 29.
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