By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible is well-known: God destroyed those two cities for their ‘sin’ of homosexuality. Or did he? What’s wrong with talking about ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ as a pair of cities in this way, and what exactly was […]
Tag: Old Testament
A Summary and Analysis of the Garden of Eden Story
According to Oscar Wilde, ‘The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.’ But as with many stories from the Bible, there are many things we get wrong about that ‘man and woman in a garden’, Adam and Eve. Where was […]
A Summary and Analysis of the Story of Shadrach and the Fiery Furnace
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The story of the fiery furnace from the Book of Daniel is a memorable episode in the Old Testament. In summary, Nebuchadnezzar condemns three Jewish men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to be burned alive by being thrown into a fiery furnace.