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Lot's wife (center) turned into a pillar of salt during Sodom's destruction (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493). The story appears to be based in part on a folk legend explaining a geographic feature. [3] A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4]
A rock formation nearby venerated as Lot's wife as a pillar of salt. The Monastery of St Lot is a Byzantine-period monastic site near the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the entrance to a natural cave, which Christians believed to have been the one where Lot and his daughters sought shelter after Sodom was destroyed (Genesis 19:24–25). [1]
In the Christian New Testament, Lot is considered sympathetically, as a man who regretted his choice to live in Sodom, where he "vexed his righteous soul from day to day". [23] Jesus spoke of future judgment coming suddenly as in the days of Lot, and warned solemnly, "Remember Lot's wife". [24]
Lot in Sodom is a 1933 short, silent and experimental film directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber. Its plot is based on the Biblical tale of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah , with quotes from the Bible being used for all intertitles .
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"Lot's Wife" pillar, Mount Sodom, Israel; Lot's Wife and Lot, rock formations in Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic; Lot's Wife, nickname of Long Ya Men, a craggy granite outcrop in Keppel Harbour, Singapore, destroyed in 1848; Lot's Wife, a chalk pillar once part of The Needles formation off the Isle of Wight, UK, until its collapse in 1764
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