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dc.contributor.authorWabyanga, Robert Kuloba
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-15T08:50:04Z
dc.date.available2022-02-15T08:50:04Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationRobert Kuloba Wabyanga (2015). The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah revisited: military and political reflections. Old Testament Essays. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2015/v28n3a16.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2312-3621
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2312-3621/2015/v28n3a16
dc.identifier.urihttps://kyuspace.kyu.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/20.500.12504/560
dc.description.abstractThat Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis have been a subject of constant cognitive itch is a truism rather than fiction. Aware that the HB is an ideological text, the story of Jordan states notably Sodom and Gomorrah may need further reflections outside sexual frontlines but from the perspectives of political dynamics of the ANE. This paper explores Sodom and Gomorrah as a political and military story that turned theological and ideological. I opine that the fire that razed Sodom and Gomorrah could have been the result of military invasion(s). What is however intriguing is the interest of the biblical writer: at what points would the military or political afterlife of Sodom and Gomorrah meet with the ideological interests of the Bible writer? What interests does the writer have in Sodom and Gomorrah that he finds it necessary not only to conceal the historical reality but also invent ideas and imageries of Sodom and Gomorrah as condemned cities? The paper employs Clines' and Exum's strategies of reading against the grain and defragmenting the stories. In this case, the different stories of Sodom and Gomorrah in chs. 10, 13, 14, 18 and 19 are read critically and in conversation with each other.en_US
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dc.publisherOld Testament Essaysen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol.28;No.3
dc.subjectSodom and Gomorrahen_US
dc.subjectAbrahamen_US
dc.subjectCrimes against humanityen_US
dc.subjectMilitary invasionen_US
dc.subjectIdeological criticismen_US
dc.titleThe destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah revisited: military and political reflectionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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