However, I do think they illustrate something that we find in Scripture with the story of a city that faced disaster. They’re kind of entertaining, but I haven’t even seen all of these that I’ve mentioned, so take the names of the movies with a grain of salt. I’m not sure it’s the best use of your time. These are not sophisticated movies, and I’m not giving any kind of an unqualified recommendation of them. Now, that’s every disaster movie that’s ever been made. The ship is going to sink, the volcano’s going to erupt, the building’s going to burn, the meteor’s going to hit, somebody’s going to die who’s it going to be? There was Twister, right, the tornado movie that takes place in the midwest.Įvery one of these movies has a predictable plot, right? You have a foreshadowing of disaster, something bad is going to come, you’re introduced to some key characters, and you’re just waiting for the inevitable to happen, and you’re wondering who’s going to survive. Or maybe it was a volcano that was going to erupt, right? There was the movie Dante’s Peak, and I think there was one called Volcano. Or maybe it was a ship that was going to sink, so you had The Poseidon Adventure, and then there was a remake of that that was a ’70s movie, and then there was a remake of that I think in the ’90s. It might be a meteor or a comet that was going to come to earth and wipe out a third of the population, so you had Armageddon and Deep Impact. The disaster could take a number of different forms. Remember the disaster movies, especially in the ’90s? It just seems like every summer there was a new disaster movie coming out. As shooting stars disintegrate in Earth's atmosphere, the spherules fall from the sky and can become concentrated in layers by geological processes, like erosion and deposition.God’s Judgment and the Interceding of Faith | Genesis 19Īnyone who knows me knows that I enjoy a good movie, and one of the genres of movies that kind of reached its zenith, its heyday, in the 1990s was the disaster movie. Layers of spherules, used in the study to argue for a large explosion, can also form slowly over time. The generated heat burst, an estimated 3,600☏, would be sufficient to destroy the city, melt the artifacts and rocks, but leave no crater behind.
In an alternative scenario, the researchers propose that a comet, composed mostly of ice, may have exploded above the desert. Additionally, the geological evidence suggesting a catastrophic end of Tall el-Hammam remains controversial, particularly because there is no impact crater to be found. The presumed destruction around 1,700 BCE also doesn't seem to fit the biblical chronology. However, this identification is disputed, as many alternative sites have been proposed over time. The spherules, they suggest, were created when an asteroid impact vaporized the ground and small droplets of molten rock fall back to Earth. This explanation of the destruction of Tall el-Hammam by an impact poses an intriguing question, was the destruction of the mythological cities Sodom and Gomorrah, as described in the Bible by fire and brimstone, based on a real-life event? The identification of Tall el-Hammam as the mythological sites of Sodom and Gomorrah is based on the interpretation of some passages in the Bible, describing the land of Sodom as located in the fertile Jordan River plain in the southern region of the land of Canaan.
Such spherules are known from other impact sites both on Earth and the Moon. The researchers found also tiny glass beads on the site. Zircon is a mineral that can form under extremely high temperatures and pressure, as experienced during the impact of a celestial body on Earth. The researchers found zircon crystals in the glassy layer. The outer layers of the vessels and other objects made from clay partially melted, forming a glassy coat.Īt the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the researchers from Trinity Southwest University presented these findings, including a possible explanation. Pieces of pottery recovered and dated to the same time of the destruction of the city show evidence of intense heat. Tall el-Hammam was apparently destroyed, as the remains of mud-brick walls suggest. The region was occupied by humans for at least 2,500 years until around 1,700 BCE, when its farming settlements and cities were suddenly abandoned and people did not return to the region for 600 to 700 years.
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