Subject: IOU: Re: The level of the Dead Sea in Antiquity
From: rochelle altman (willaa@netvision.net.il)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2008 - 11:46:21 EDT
Forwarded on behalf of Stephen Goranson: I think that Neev and Embry, The destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho : geological, climatological, and archaeological background (1995) and Tina Niemi et al., The Dead Sea: The Lake and its Setting (OUP 1997, esp. p.244) are more reliable that Cippora Klein articles and dissertation; the latter apparently misled M. and K. Lonnqvist, Archaeology of the Hidden Qumran: The New Paradigm (2002) into thinking Qumran submerged. Here, from Ariel L. Szczupak googled from ane2-list: dead sea levels [from neev & emery, the destruction of sodom, gomorah and jericho, table p. 60]: ....-2700 bp: -400 [like the present level] 2700-2300 bp: -375 2300-1800 bp: -400 1800-1500 bp: -375 1500-... bp: -400 Stephen Goranson http://www.duke.edu/~goranson "Jannaeus, His Brother Absalom, and Judah the Essene" Quoting Morten H=F8rning Jensen <lister@e-box.dk>: > Hi all > > In connection with a project on Qumran, I am in > need of info on the level of the Dead Sea in Antiquity. We > know it was higher than today, but do we have any real figures? In Roman > times? > > > > Thanks! > > Morten H. Jensen, University of Aarhus, > Denmark
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