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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]
The explosion would have caused the dead sea to slosh about & blown into the air causing anything close to shore to be splashed with salty water waves & rain that quickly evaporates in the heat of the burning landscape (Genesis 19:28) leaving behind the salt so Lot's wife would become encrusted in salt looking like a piller & only identified by ...
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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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]
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Hildegarde Lasell married filmmaker, radiologist, and literary editor James Sibley Watson Jr. in 1916. [13] Poet E. E. Cummings was an usher at their wedding. [14] They had two children, Michael (1918–2012), who became a scientist and musician, [15] and Jeanne (1921–1991).