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The Dead Sea and the Jordan River
\"For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance. In this exceptionally engaging and readable book, Barbara Kreiger chronicles the natural and human history of these storied bodies of water, drawing on accounts by travelers, pilgrims, and explorers from ancient times to the present. She conveys the blend of spiritual, touristic, and scientific motivations that have driven exploration and describes the modern exploitation of the lake and the surrounding area through mineral extraction and agriculture. Today, both lake and river are in crisis, and stewardship of these water resources is bound up with political conflicts in the region. The Dead Sea and the Jordan River combines history, literature, travelogue, and natural history in a way that makes it hard to put down\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho : geological, climatological, and archaeological background
The story of the destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho--three cities situated along a major fault line extending 1,100 kilometers from the Red Sea to Turkey--is the oldest such description in human history.In this book, noted geologists K.O.
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The Dead Sea : a 10,000 year history
\"The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms--even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its shores for centuries. The protagonists in its story are not only Jews and Arabs, but also Greeks, Nabataeans, Romans, Crusaders and Mamluks. Today it has become a tourist hotspot, but its drying basin is increasingly under threat. Nir Arielli explores the history of the Dead Sea from the first Neolithic settlements to the present day. Moving through the ages, Arielli reveals the religious, economic, military, and scientific importance of the lake, which has been both a source of great wealth and a site of war. The Dead Sea weaves together a tapestry of the lake's human stories--and amidst environmental degradation and renewed conflict, makes a powerful case for why it should be saved.\"--Book jacket.
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DEAD SEA ANCHORAGES
There are some anchorages at the Dead Sea that were used in the past, during periods of stability in the area. At some of the anchorages, structures were built on land. These sites were excavated and dated to the First Temple period and the Second Temple period. Here I discuss the sites' function. Il y avait des mouillages le long de la mer Morte qui furent utilisés autrefois, pendant les périodes de paix. À certains de ces points d'ancrages, des structures furent établies sur le rivage. Ces sites ont été fouillés, et datent de l'âge du Fer et des périodes perse, hellénistique et hérodienne. Les fonctions de ces sites sont étudiées ci-après.
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Measurements and Shape of the Dead Sea in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
The Dead Sea is often described by authors in Antiquity. Four of these authors, the first known to provide measurements for the body of water, are addressed here. Their reports, which are a wealthy source of information on the way the ancients grasped their surrounding maritime area, are examined. Considering the measurements obtained scientifically in recent studies concerning the period when the texts were redacted, one might be puzzled by the seeming discrepancy between the ancient and modern sets of data. Unfamiliarity with ancient units of measurement and their meaning, especially their use in a nautical context, may explain some of the confusion. The present paper presents a multi-disciplinary study combining philological, geological and metrological approaches, displays the differences and tries to account for them.
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Law in the documents of the Judaean desert
A collection of articles by leading contributors on the investigation of the law--Jewish, Greek, and Roman-- in the early second century Judaean Desert documents, written in the Roman provinces of Judaea and Arabia, including the Babatha archive.
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Modelling Dead Sea levels and rainfall: past, present and future
ABSTRACTThe Dead Sea has played a crucial role in the past development of communities in the Jordan Valley, as evidenced by the wide range of archaeological sites close to the sea or potential old sea shorelines. There is also considerable debate concerning how levels have changed over the recent past and also how water resources in the Jordan Valley will be managed in the future. Over the past 50 years there has been a significant reduction in the level of the Dead Sea driven by abstractions from the Jordan River, the main source of fresh water to the sea. Falling levels have created problems for the tourism industry, and there are plans to restore levels using a water transfer from the Red Sea or the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea. A new model of the Dead Sea levels is described, based on historical rainfall and level data from 1860 to 1960. The model is used to simulate the impacts of abstractions on Dead Sea levels that have resulted in a 45-m reduction in levels since the 1960s. The model is also used to evaluate the impacts of future climate change: it is shown that the projected changes in rainfall have a far smaller impact on Dead Sea levels than do the abstractions. The model also shows that the only way to avoid this problem is to transfer water into the Dead Sea from either the Red Sea or the Mediterranean. […]
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The Discovery of Sodom, 1851
The alleged discovery of the sites of Sodom and Gomorrah by the French traveler Louis Félicien de Saulcy in 1851 provided the occasion for a series of debates in Britain on the question of biblical authority that were also, for some audiences, about examining the crimes and sins of the Sodomites and defining them openly as homoerotic lust. In this way, and at this moment, questions of same-sex desire became an important accompaniment to pressing debates about faith.
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