Word: sodom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many centuries, interpreters of the Old Testament have thought that the "wickedness" for which God destroyed Sodom with fire and brimstone was homosexuality. That interpretation is mistaken, says Anglican Historian Hugh Ross Williamson in the current issue of Britain's Clergy Review...
...first-rate men and second-rate gods, which prized human excellence, beauty and strength above all things. But it owes most to the revolutionary Biblical idea of a direct encounter between man and a single, personal God. Abraham had the temerity to bargain with Jehovah over the fate of Sodom, and Job is noted for having goaded Him into talking back...
...pushing production of bromides and bromine, already ranks as one of the world's top five producers. Natural gas fields, recently discovered in the area, are being tapped and phosphate production sharply increased with loans from the Export-Import Bank. Last week a new plant opened in Sodom to refine table salt-95% of which will be exported to salt-starved Japan...
Much of this activity is the work of one man, Mordecai Makleff, 43, who took over Israel's government-owned Dead Sea Works in 1955, when the neighborhood around Sodom enjoyed a reputation hardly better than when the angels visited Lot. The Works suffered from incompetent management and low morale, and the town, with a population of 1,400, was full of prostitution and hashish addiction. Makleff, who had been made chief of staff of the Israeli armed forces at 32 because of his skill at organization and administration, quickly cleaned up Sodom. He fired most...
...Sodom area still has its peculiar working hazards: curious camels often make it difficult for planes to land on its airstrip, and a helicopter stands by to pull careless workers out of the slimy and corroding salt water. But the area now makes a major contribution to Israel's economy, and Makleff intends to increase its output fourfold by 1966. "These are the elements that God gave us," he says, "and we intend to use them...