I'm trying to figure out how people verify the bible...by using the bible.
By that logic, I can say that call of duty is a religion, since I read the manual.
"Thou shall not camp in respawn areas"
Some of the clues if you please,...are in the anceint hebrew tex. So you must obviously have a source and then know how to interpet the tex or words, meaning, tgen you have take the story and find the clues as to where the bible is saying said event is taking place.
Genesis 13:10
"Lot looked out over the
kittrah (plane of jordon) and saw that everything was well watered, like the garden of yahweh like the land of Egypt towards Zoar."
This was when Abram and Lot seperated their heards, because the land could not sustain the two groups.
We also know from this chapter their whereabouts at the time of this meeting. They where at Bethel and Ai. you can see the site of Sodom today with the naked eye.
Remember Lot and his Daughters where rescued from the devastation of Sodom because they lived in the town.
Note:
kittrah (sp), in ancient times means sphere or talin. A flat plane.
So yes the bible will tell you where to look, but you have to read the text and not all archeologist do that.
btw,... Dr. Steven Collins used these same bible verses in locating Sodom. He also helped to find and excavate the site at Ai, so he had a very good context from which to look for Sodom.
When all of academia where saying it must have been in the Southern Dead Sea plane.